We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
JIM MORRISONWe fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
JIM MORRISONMusic inflames temperament.
JIM MORRISONNo one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.
JIM MORRISONYou get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act…
JIM MORRISONI like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.
JIM MORRISONThere are images I need to complete my own reality.
JIM MORRISONYou have a lot of small choices. It’s like . . . I guess it’s the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .
JIM MORRISONGive form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.
JIM MORRISONNobody would stay interested in me if I was normal
JIM MORRISONThey grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are.
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 MORRISONThere may be a time when we’ll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.
JIM MORRISONA person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he’s been taught—all society’s brainwashing.
JIM MORRISONI believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
JIM MORRISONMy wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.
JIM MORRISONThere’s nothing wrong with being a large mammal.
JIM MORRISON