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Jim Morrison
American
Musician
About the author
This is the strangest life I've ever known.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Life
It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Work
#Day
#End
#Night
#Drinking
#Gambling
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Possibilities
#Poetry
Love cannot save you from your own fate.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Love
#Fate
Music inflames temperament.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Music
#Temperament
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Mind
#Media
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. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Truth
#Body
#Lies
#Rules
#Sex
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Death
#Fear
#Lies
#Cinema
The 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.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Ability
#Freedom
#Trade
#Reality
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Parents
#Force
#Smiles
#Murder
#Faces
#Relatives
There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Evil
#Violence
#Infatuation
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Fear
#Violence
#Pain
#Feelings
When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Authority
#Peace
Where's your will to be weird?
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Will
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#People
#Poetry
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Life
#People
#Death
#Fear
#Friend
#Pain
The time to hesitate is through.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Time
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Fear
#Freedom
#Power
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Life
#Mistakes
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Freedom
#Friend
Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Being
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.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Open
#Prison
#Soul
#Body
#Senses
#Sex
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Death
#Angels
#Ravens
I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Freedom
#Road
#Meaning
#Chaos
#Disorder
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Want
#People
#Names
#Divorce
Film spectators are quiet vampires.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Film
#Quiet
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Love
#Feeling
#Freedom
#Friends
#Friend
#Help
Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Emotion
#Hatred
I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Freedom
#Road
#Meaning
#Chaos
#Disorder
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Order
#Senses
I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#People
#Music
I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#People
I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Soul
#Moments
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#People
#Art
#Trying
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Being
#Soul
#Moments
Drugs are a bet with your mind.
Jim Morrison,
American
Musician
#Mind
#Drugs