We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves
JIM MORRISONI’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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All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.
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The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces.
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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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A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them.
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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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Music inflames temperament.
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Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings.
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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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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.
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I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language – ‘I don’t know.’ It’s terribly embarrassing.
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Everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that’s bullshit! People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains.
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I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.
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There may be a time when we’ll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.
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People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit
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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…
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