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.
JIM MORRISONMusic inflames temperament.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.
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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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They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
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Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
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There’s the know. And there’s the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that’s what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th’ dooooooooorrr…
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Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with.
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Ravaged 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
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You’ve seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?
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I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps “Oh look at that!” Then – whoosh, and I’m gone… and they’ll never see anything like it ever again… and they won’t be able to forget me – ever.
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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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There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.
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The time to hesitate is through.
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Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.
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Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.
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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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