Blake 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.’
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.’
JIM MORRISONAll your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.
JIM MORRISONWhoever controls the media, controls the mind.
JIM MORRISONI 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.
JIM MORRISONWe fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
JIM MORRISONEach generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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 MORRISONYou cannot petition the lord with prayer!
JIM MORRISONA hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them.
JIM MORRISONNo one here gets out alive.
JIM MORRISONThe time to hesitate is through.
JIM MORRISONTo keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act – and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image
JIM MORRISONIndians scattered on dawn’s highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind.
JIM MORRISONWe are content in the ‘given’ in sensation’s quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.
JIM MORRISONI like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.
JIM MORRISONWhen sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.
JIM MORRISON