Music inflames temperament.
JIM MORRISONMusic inflames temperament.
JIM MORRISONI wouldn’t mind dying in a plane crash. It’d be a good way to go. I don’t want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD…
JIM MORRISONThe best songs just come unasked for. You don’t have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.
JIM MORRISONThe world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun.
JIM MORRISONAnd if you try to remind them, they hate you for it – they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.
JIM MORRISONEach generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
JIM MORRISONThat unknown was once very well known. It’s where our souls belong….
JIM MORRISONLove hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous
JIM MORRISONI 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…
JIM MORRISONMan, I’m sick of doubt.
JIM MORRISONLos Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also.
JIM MORRISONRavaged 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 MORRISONA hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them.
JIM MORRISONI’m kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
JIM MORRISONListen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
JIM MORRISONA person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he’s been taught—all society’s brainwashing.
JIM MORRISON