Top 100 Quotes About Jim Morrison
#1. The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
Jim Morrison
#2. Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin
We could plan a murder
Or start a religion.
Jim Morrison
#3. I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
Patti Smith
#4. Kanye West talks about being Axl Rose, being Kurt Cobain, being Jim Morrison. Adam Levine is selling acne ointment to teenagers.
Ian Astbury
#5. Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.
Jim Morrison
#6. There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theatres to recall the sensation of rain.
Jim Morrison
#7. O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
Jim Morrison
#8. The best songs come unasked for. You don't have to think about them ... Summer is good for songs. When it's real warm, if you have a sense of freedom, not a lot on your mind, and a feeling there's plenty of time, it just seems to be a good climate for music.
Jim Morrison
#10. I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups ... singi ng or speaking and using machines ...
Jim Morrison
#11. This is the strangest life I have ever known.
Jim Morrison
#12. Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better.
Maurice Gibb
#14. Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.
Jim Morrison
#15. In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night ... starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music.
Jim Morrison
#16. I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
Jim Morrison
#17. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
Jim Morrison
#18. One shouldn't take life so seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.
Jim Morrison
#20. Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
Jim Morrison
#22. Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb through the tide
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side.
Jim Morrison
#23. I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.
Jim Morrison
#24. The subject says: I see first many things which dance ... then everything gradually becomes connected.
Jim Morrison
#25. Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Jim Morrison
#26. My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition-to write something worthwhile.
Jim Morrison
#27. The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band.
Ray Manzarek
#28. Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate.
Jim Morrison
#29. Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.
Jim Morrison
#30. Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.
Jim Morrison
#31. Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.
Jim Morrison
#32. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
Jim Morrison
#33. No more money, no more fancy dress
This other Kingdom seems by far the best until its other jaw reveals incest & loose obedience to a vegetable law
I will not go
Prefer a Feast of Friends
To the Giant family
Jim Morrison
#34. I say I'm Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin all wrapped up into one. If I die early ... I'll be just like those guys.
Dennis Rodman
#35. Could any Hell be more horrible than now, and real?
Jim Morrison
#36. Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison
#37. To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
Patrick Swayze
#39. The grand highway is crowded with lovers
and searchers
and leavers
so eager to please, and to forget. Wilderness
Jim Morrison
#40. I'm gonna love you
Till the heavens
Stop the rain.
I'm gonna
Love you
Till the stars
Fall from the sky
For you and I
Jim Morrison
#41. I'll always be a word man, better than a bird man
Jim Morrison
#42. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.
Jim Morrison
#43. Two of the guys that were honorary Vampires - Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix - had died at 27. And they were certainly archangels in our group.
Alice Cooper
#44. I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can't drag people through.
Jim Morrison
#45. It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The spectator cannot exist without it. It insures his existence.
Jim Morrison
#48. When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
Jim Morrison
#49. Love is a dream. Dreams are good, but do not be surprised if you wake up in tears.
Jim Morrison
#50. People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security ... How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?
Jim Morrison
#51. I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.
Tommy Hilfiger
#52. Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders round as ravens claws.
Jim Morrison
#53. Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal
Jim Morrison
#54. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them.
Jim Morrison
#55. I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then- whoosh, and I'm gone ... and they'll never see anything like it ever again ... and they won't be able to forget me- ever.
Jim Morrison
#56. Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.
Jim Morrison
#57. Five to one, baby
One in five
No one here gets out alive
Jim Morrison
#58. I was cut out of The Doors. I was Okie Girl, a groupie. The powers that be thought that my character made Jim Morrison look too sleazy, if you can imagine. I saw the movie-it was so loud I had a headache for three days.
Jennifer Tilly
#59. Adolescence and early youth ... the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands ... and rock is screaming type music.
Jim Morrison
#60. Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Jim Morrison
#61. Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine ...
Jim Morrison
#62. I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just ... in between.
Jim Morrison
#63. Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: just curiosity.
Jim Morrison
#65. It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
Jim Morrison
#66. I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
Jim Morrison
#67. There's the know. And there's the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that's what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th' dooooooooorrr ...
Jim Morrison
#68. I am troubled, immeasurably
by your eyes.
I am struck by the feather
of your soft reply.
The sound of glass
speaks quick, disdain
and conceals
what your eyes fight
to explain.
Jim Morrison
#69. It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
Jim Morrison
#70. What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences and dragged her down
Jim Morrison
#71. Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.
Kanye West
#72. Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v.
Jim Morrison
#73. Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
Jim Morrison
#75. Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride.
Jim Morrison
#76. Once you make peace with authority you
become an authority
Jim Morrison
#77. Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.
Jim Morrison
#78. 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 proud to say, one of my closest friends.
Robby Krieger
#79. Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts
Jim Morrison
#80. The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.
Jim Morrison
#81. Nobody understands you better than yourself, but if someone tries to do it is because he loves you.
Jim Morrison
#82. [ ... ] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.
Jim Morrison
#83. The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.
Steven Van Zandt
#84. There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
Jim Morrison
#85. All our songs are about love, travel and death.
Jim Morrison
#87. Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.
Jim Morrison
#88. Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.
Jim Morrison
#89. The Gate is Straight, Deep and Wide; Break On Through to the other side.
Jim Morrison
#90. Take it easy baby, take it as it comes - specialize in having fun!
Jim Morrison
#91. All our lives we sweat and save
Building for a shallow grave
Must be something else we say
Somehow to defend this place
Everything must be this way.
Jim Morrison
#92. When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder ... the most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.
Jim Morrison
#93. Whoever controls the media, controls the mind
Jim Morrison
#95. Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Jim Morrison
#96. Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
Jim Morrison
#97. I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD ... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it
Jim Morrison
#99. It's so eternal. As long as there are people, they can remember words and combinations of words. Nothing else can survive a holocaust, but poetry and songs.
Jim Morrison
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