They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
JIM MORRISONThey force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
JIM MORRISONI like any reaction I can get with my music.
JIM MORRISONThat’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is….Most people love you for who you pretend to be…
JIM MORRISONTwentieth-century culture’s disease is the inability to feel their reality.
JIM MORRISONThe best songs just come unasked for. You don’t have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.
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 MORRISONJealousy we understood and thought natural–a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.
JIM MORRISONMusic inflames temperament.
JIM MORRISONPeople are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit
JIM MORRISONA kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.
JIM MORRISONExpose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
JIM MORRISONRather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
JIM MORRISONMan, I’m sick of doubt.
JIM MORRISONIndians scattered on dawn’s highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind.
JIM MORRISONThere’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…
JIM MORRISONRather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
JIM MORRISON