Robby Krieger

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I…

— Robby Krieger

We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money.…

— Robby Krieger

We were all kind of freaked out recording the first album because we didn't know what it would be like.

— Robby Krieger

All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of…

— Robby Krieger

Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and…

— Robby Krieger

Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.

— Robby Krieger

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.

— Robby Krieger

The chords in 'Light My Fire' are based on [John] Coltrane's version of this song. He just solos over A minor and…

— Robby Krieger

When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find…

— Robby Krieger

The fact that we represented freedom, you know. We talked about that in the songs and I think that the parents, like…

— Robby Krieger

Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire

— Robby Krieger

I really hate it when I see other bands selling their music to commercials.

— Robby Krieger

When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'

— Robby Krieger