I’m kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
JIM MORRISONI’m kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
JIM MORRISONNobody would stay interested in me if I was normal
JIM MORRISONThey force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
JIM MORRISONYou have a lot of small choices. It’s like . . . I guess it’s the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .
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 MORRISONJealousy we understood and thought natural–a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.
JIM MORRISONA friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
JIM MORRISONActually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
JIM MORRISONEach generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
JIM MORRISONEverybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that’s bullshit! People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains.
JIM MORRISONWhen you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
JIM MORRISONThe gate is straight, Deep and wide, Break on through to the other side…
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 MORRISONDo you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom? Have you been born yet & are you alive?
JIM MORRISONMost people love you for who you pretend to be.
JIM MORRISONWe fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
JIM MORRISON