We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves
JIM MORRISONYou cannot petition the lord with prayer!
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I’ll give you love unfolding.
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Is everybody in?… Is everybody in?… Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin…
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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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The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.
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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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People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
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Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.
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We cripple ourselves with lies.
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Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That’s all it was curiosity.
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How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio.
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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
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A person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he’s been taught—all society’s brainwashing.
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That’s not saying that people shouldn’t keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence.
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I like any reaction I can get with my music.
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The Night is young & full of rest I can’t describe the way she’s dress’d She’ll pander to some strange requests Anything that you suggest Anything to please her guest.
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Music is your only friend until the end…
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Twentieth-century culture’s disease is the inability to feel their 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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Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
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Music inflames temperament.
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And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it – they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.
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Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
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Obviously that can only work at moments. It can’t be a lasting thing.
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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
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All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.
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I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
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