I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
JIM MORRISONYou have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren’t willing to do that.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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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.
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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…
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Twentieth-century culture’s disease is the inability to feel their reality.
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The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain.
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The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.
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Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.
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I’ve noticed that when people are joking they’re usually dead serious, and when they’re serious, they’re usually pretty funny.
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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.
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How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don’t really want to be free?
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You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
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Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you’re doing something.
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.
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The time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre
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There’s nothing wrong with being a large mammal.
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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel.
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When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.
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Love cannot save you from your own fate.
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The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces.
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Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
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You get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act…
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Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also.
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Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
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I like to let each thing happen – direct it a little consciously, maybe – but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance.
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How can I set free anyone who doesn’t have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?
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In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song.
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