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.
JIM MORRISONThe 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.
JIM MORRISONMusic inflames temperament.
JIM MORRISONYou feel your strength in the experience of pain.
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 man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.
JIM MORRISONThe world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.
JIM MORRISONWhy does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you?
JIM MORRISONThere are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.
JIM MORRISONFriends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel.
JIM MORRISONThe time to hesitate is through.
JIM MORRISONObviously that can only work at moments. It can’t be a lasting thing.
JIM MORRISONCinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings.
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 MORRISONWindows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.
JIM MORRISONLet’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That’s all it was curiosity.
JIM MORRISONBlake 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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