Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
JIM MORRISONMost people love you for who you pretend to be….To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.
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The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.
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I think people resist freedom because they’re afraid of the unknown. But it’s ironic.
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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
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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.’
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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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I’ve always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.
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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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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?
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Most people love you for who you pretend to be….To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing.
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The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun.
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Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.
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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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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
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Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day’s divinity! First thing you see!!
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