They grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are.
JIM MORRISONPeople 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..
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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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Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth.
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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are…There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.
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Is everybody in?… Is everybody in?… Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin…
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A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.
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I like any reaction I can get with my music.
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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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Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you?
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Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality…
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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.
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I wonder why people like to believe I’m high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.
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It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
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You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
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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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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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