Top 100 Quotes About Jim Morrison: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Jim Morrison

#1. Kanye West talks about being Axl Rose, being Kurt Cobain, being Jim Morrison. Adam Levine is selling acne ointment to teenagers.

Ian Astbury

#2. Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better.

Maurice Gibb

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. How much did Jim Morrison know?

David Icke

#13. Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.

Grace Slick

#14. Life hurts a lot more than death. - Jim Morrison

Robert Kirkman

#15. I was onstage with Menudo since I was 12 years old. To us, the most successful one was the guy with the most fans. If you moved your hips and the girls screamed, you were getting it right. Who wouldn't want to be like Elvis or Jim Morrison!

Ricky Martin

#16. I didn't love Jim Morrison. There was something very reptilian about him. And I didn't care for his singing, but his band! The Doors were fantastic.

Linda Ronstadt

#17. the magazine compared him with John Lennon from the Beatles. I told that to Sam later, and she got really mad. She said he was like Jim Morrison if he was like anybody, but really, he isn't like anybody but himself.

Stephen Chbosky

#18. What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

Patti Smith

#19. I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did.

Warren Zevon

#20. In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

Patti Smith

#21. I liked Jim Morrison a lot as a person. He was this very poetic character, and death was always on his mind. And it showed up in his songs - I mean, almost every song he wrote had something to do with dying. He was an American treasure that went way too soon.

Alice Cooper

#22. The ancient Egyptians used to say: if you say a man's name, he is alive. I take this opportunity to say, Jim Morrison.

Ray Manzarek

#23. L.A. is what happens when a bunch of Lovecraftian elder gods and porn starlets spend a weekend locked up in the Chateau Marmont snorting lines of crank off Jim Morrison's bones.

Richard Kadrey

#24. I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.

Patti Smith

#25. I looked over and Jim Morrison was dancing the jitterbug with my grandmother on the coffee table.

Taylor Negron

#26. The 1960s:
A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.

Richard Brautigan

#27. Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world.

Nico

#28. I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics

Henry Rollins

#29. Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison, and Pablo Picasso.

Alice Cooper

#30. The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Jim Morrison

#31. Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin
We could plan a murder
Or start a religion.

Jim Morrison

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theatres to recall the sensation of rain.

Jim Morrison

#35. O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

Jim Morrison

#36. 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

#37. Each day is a drive through history.

Jim Morrison

#38. 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

#39. This is the strangest life I have ever known.

Jim Morrison

#40. I pressed her thigh and death smiled

Jim Morrison

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

Jim Morrison

#45. One shouldn't take life so seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.

Jim Morrison

#46. Blood is the rose of mysterious union.

Jim Morrison

#47. 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

#48. Where's your will to be weird?

Jim Morrison

#49. Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb through the tide
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side.

Jim Morrison

#50. 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

#51. The subject says: I see first many things which dance ... then everything gradually becomes connected.

Jim Morrison

#52. Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Jim Morrison

#53. 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

#54. Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate.

Jim Morrison

#55. 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

#56. Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

Jim Morrison

#57. Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.

Jim Morrison

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. Could any Hell be more horrible than now, and real?

Jim Morrison

#61. 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

#62. Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

Jim Morrison

#63. The grand highway is crowded with lovers
and searchers
and leavers
so eager to please, and to forget. Wilderness

Jim Morrison

#64. 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

#65. I'll always be a word man, better than a bird man

Jim Morrison

#66. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.

Jim Morrison

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. I'"ll never look into your eyes again

Jim Morrison

#70. All games contain the idea of death.

Jim Morrison

#71. When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Jim Morrison

#72. Love is a dream. Dreams are good, but do not be surprised if you wake up in tears.

Jim Morrison

#73. 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

#74. Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders round as ravens claws.

Jim Morrison

#75. Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal

Jim Morrison

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. Five to one, baby
One in five
No one here gets out alive

Jim Morrison

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine ...

Jim Morrison

#83. I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just ... in between.

Jim Morrison

#84. 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

#85. Take an Indian home to lunch.

Jim Morrison

#86. 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

#87. I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

Jim Morrison

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

Jim Morrison

#91. 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

#92. 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