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Jim Morrison

vocalist, director, singer-songwriter, lyricist, composer, actor, poet, singer

1943  – 1971

James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was an American singer, songwriter, and poet who was the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band the Doors. Due to his charismatic persona, poetic lyrics, distinctive voice, and unpredictable performances, along with the dramatic circumstances surrounding his life and early death, Morrison is regarded by music critics and fans as one of the most influential frontmen in rock history. Since his death, his fame has endured as one of popular culture's top rebellious and oft-displayed icons, representing the generation gap and youth counterculture.

All Quotes by Jim Morrison

“Film spectators are quiet vampires.”
— Jim Morrison
“No one here gets out alive.”
— Jim Morrison
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
— Jim Morrison
“We're reaching for death”
— Jim Morrison
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
— Jim Morrison
“The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.”
— Jim Morrison
“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
“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
“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”
— Jim Morrison
“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
“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.”
— Jim Morrison
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
— Jim Morrison
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.”
— Jim Morrison
“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
“This is the strangest life I've ever known.”
— 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.”
— Jim Morrison
“You know the day destroys the night, Break on through to the other side!”
— Jim Morrison
“Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.”
— Jim Morrison
“We chased our pleasures here, Break on through to the other side!”
— Jim Morrison
“Love cannot save you from your own fate.”
— Jim Morrison
“It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me.”
— Jim Morrison
“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”
— Jim Morrison
“People are strange when you're a stranger Streets are uneven when you're down.”
— Jim Morrison
“I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.”
— Jim Morrison
“When you're strange When you're strange.”
— Jim Morrison
“When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.”
— Jim Morrison
“Five to one, baby If we try.”
— Jim Morrison
“I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.”
— Jim Morrison
“The old get older Come on!”
— Jim Morrison
“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
“Take an Indian home to lunch.”
— Jim Morrison
“Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.”
— Jim Morrison
“At first flash of Eden, We race down to the sea. Waiting for the sun...”
— Jim Morrison
“Drugs are a bet with your mind.”
— Jim Morrison
“This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.”
— Jim Morrison
“Film spectators are quiet vampires.”
— Jim Morrison
“There's a killer on the roadHis brain is squirming like a toad.”
— Jim Morrison
“Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.”
— Jim Morrison
“Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the heartache I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the loss of God.”
— Jim Morrison
“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
“I'll tell you this — No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”
— Jim Morrison
“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
“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.”
— Jim Morrison
“There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.”
— Jim Morrison
“I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.”
— Jim Morrison
“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
“Yoga powers. in one's deepest inner mind, or in the minds of others.”
— Jim Morrison
“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
“(Windows work two ways, mirrors one way.) You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.”
— Jim Morrison
“Music inflames temperament.”
— Jim Morrison
“The world becomes an apparently infinite, comprise the world game.”
— Jim Morrison
“Where's your will to be weird?”
— Jim Morrison
“Cinema has evolved in two paths. One is spectacle. Like the phantasmagoria, its goal is the creation of a total substitute sensory world. The other is peep show, which claims for its realm both the erotic and the untampered observance of real life, and imitates the keyhole or voyeur's window without need of color, noise, grandeur.”
— Jim Morrison
“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.”
— Jim Morrison
“The subject says "I see first lots of things which dance — then everything becomes gradually connected".”
— Jim Morrison
“Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.”
— Jim Morrison
“Few would defend a small view of Alchemy as "Mother of Chemistry", and confuse its true goal with those external metal arts. Alchemy is an erotic science, involved in buried aspects of reality, aimed at purifying and transforming all being and matter. Not to suggest that material operations are ever abandoned. The adept holds to both the mystical and physical work.”
— Jim Morrison
“Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.”
— Jim Morrison
“They can picture love affairs of chemicals and stars, a romance of stones, or the fertility of fire. Strange, fertile correspondences the alchemists sensed in unlikely orders of being. Between men and planets, plants and gestures, words and weather.”
— Jim Morrison
“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
“Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.”
— Jim Morrison
“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
“More or less, we're all afflicted with the psychology of the voyeur. Not in a strictly clinical or criminal sense, but in our whole physical and emotional stance before the world. Whenever we seek to break this spell of passivity, our actions are cruel and awkward and generally obscene, like an invalid who has forgotten to walk.”
— Jim Morrison
“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
“I can't believe this is happening the slaughtered wind”
— Jim Morrison
“Love cannot save you from your own fate.”
— Jim Morrison
“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
“Do you dare or forgiveness?”
— Jim Morrison
“The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.”
— Jim Morrison
“Camel caravans bear kills the temple of no sex.”
— Jim Morrison
“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
“Cool pools trains in their wake.”
— Jim Morrison
“I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.”
— Jim Morrison
“This is it has come.”
— Jim Morrison
“Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.”
— Jim Morrison
“Do you know the warm progress under the stars? & are you alive?”
— Jim Morrison
“Let's reinvent the gods, all the myths of the ages Celebrate symbols from deep elder forests”
— Jim Morrison
“Now listen to this... Immaculate.”
— Jim Morrison
“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”
— Jim Morrison
“O great creator of being and death not ends it”
— Jim Morrison
“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
“I touched her thigh and death smiled”
— Jim Morrison
“We have assembled inside this ancient of the streets”
— Jim Morrison
“Resident mockery give us an hour for magic”
— Jim Morrison
“I'm sick of dour faces my garden bower; dig?”
— Jim Morrison
“Death makes angels of us all claws”
— Jim Morrison
“I will not go To the Giant family”
— Jim Morrison
“The program for this evening a movie on?”
— Jim Morrison
“They're making a joke of our universe”
— Jim Morrison
“Do you know freedom exists in a school bookWe're trying for something that's already found us.”
— Jim Morrison
“Always a playground instructor, never a Killer”
— Jim Morrison
“Indian, Indian what did you die for? Indian says, nothing at all.”
— Jim Morrison
“Lying on stained wretched sheets with the bleeding virgin, we could plan a murder...or start a religion.”
— Jim Morrison
“There are things known”
— Jim Morrison
“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.”
— Jim Morrison
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. 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.”
— Jim Morrison
“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
“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
“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
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. 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.”
— Jim Morrison
“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