Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up.
JIM MORRISONWe hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves
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All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.
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No one here gets out alive.
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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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The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.
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The gate is straight, Deep and wide, Break on through to the other side…
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In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song.
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Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I’ll give you love unfolding.
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That unknown was once very well known. It’s where our souls belong….
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The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun.
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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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Obviously that can only work at moments. It can’t be a lasting thing.
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Actually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
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Getting drunk . . . you’re in complete control up to a point. It’s your choice, every time you take a sip.
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I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just…in between.
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We don’t plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we’ll play.
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I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!
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Everybody 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.
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Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
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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.’
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I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply.
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I’ve always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.
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Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also.
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Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move.
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I’ve noticed that when people are joking they’re usually dead serious, and when they’re serious, they’re usually pretty funny.
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I like to let each thing happen – direct it a little consciously, maybe – but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance.
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Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings.
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