A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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You get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act…
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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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The gate is straight, Deep and wide, Break on through to the other side…
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Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with.
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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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No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.
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Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music.
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They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
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How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio.
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Twentieth-century culture’s disease is the inability to feel their reality.
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Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down
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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are…There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.
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I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.
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Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal
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Violence isn’t always evil. What’s evil is the infatuation with violence.
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