I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.
JIM MORRISONSome people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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You have a lot of small choices. It’s like . . . I guess it’s the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .
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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
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Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can’t drag people through.
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No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.
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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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Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
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All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
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Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
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I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
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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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Jealousy we understood and thought natural–a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.
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All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.
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Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality…
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