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.
Meaning of the quote
This quote by American musician Jim Morrison suggests that he finds interest in things that seem chaotic or meaningless, as he believes they can lead to freedom. He sees disorder and rebellion as a path to liberation, even if the actions don't seem to have a clear purpose. Morrison appreciates the potential for freedom and expression in things that may appear random or without direction.
More quotes from Jim Morrison
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.
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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.
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
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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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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.
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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
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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.
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I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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Film spectators are quiet vampires.
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Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
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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.’ When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
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Love cannot save you from your own fate.
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I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
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This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.
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The time to hesitate is through.
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Violence isn’t always evil. What’s evil is the infatuation with violence.
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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.
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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. We cripple ourselves with lies.
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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.
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Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
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Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
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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.
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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.
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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
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There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
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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.
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Music inflames temperament.
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Where’s your will to be weird?
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Drugs are a bet with your mind.
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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.
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