Jim Morrison Quotes

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

The grand highway is crowded with lovers
and searchers
and leavers
so eager to please, and to forget. Wilderness

I can look at a crowd," he said to his friends, "I can just look at it. It's all, uh, very scientific, and I can diagnose the crowd psychologically. Just four of us, properly positioned, can turn the crowd around. We can cure it. We can make love to it. We can make it riot."
Jim's friends looked at him blankly.
"Hey, man," Jim said, "don't you even want to try?

You're all a bunch of fuckin' slaves!

Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death ... you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??

Getting drunk ... you're in complete control up to a point. It's your choice, every time you take a sip. You have a lot of small choices. It's like ... I guess it's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation ...

The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.

The mask that you wore. My fingers would explore. Costume of control. Excitement soon unfolds.

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

Or society places a supreme value on control
hiding what you feel. Our culture mocks "primitive cultures" and prides itself on supression of natural instincts and impulses.

Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.

Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws

Where's your will to be weird?

All games contain the idea of death.

In the holy solipsism
of the young
Now I can't walk thru a city
street w/out eying each
single pedestrian. I feel
thier vibe thru my
skin, the hair on my neck
it rises.

Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate.

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.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

Dreams are at once fruit and outcry against an atrophy of the senses..

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?

The time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

People fear death even more than they fear pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over.

I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can't drag people through.

We came from over here,
to over there

Then told we wonder
mindless to degree
most seldom furls
in slumber, burns
begins a century.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The spectator cannot exist without it. It insures his existence.

They got the guns, but we got the numbers.

Nobody understands you better than yourself, but if someone tries to do it is because he loves you.

You can not save you from your own fate.

[ ... ] But this will not do. No, this
will never do. There are
continents and shores which
beseech our understanding.
Seldom have we been so slow.
Seldom have we been so far.
My only wish is to see
Far Arden again.

There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.

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.

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.

When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder ... the most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.

I'll always be a word man, better than a bird man

Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

I can make the earth stop in its tracks. I made the blue cars go away. I can make myself invisible or small. I can become gigantic & reach the farthest things. I can change the course of nature. I can place myself anywhere in space or time. I can summon the dead. I can perceive events on other worlds, in my deepest inner mind, & in the minds of others. I can I am

That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.

The time you wait subtracts the joy
The heads the angel you destroy

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.

Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

I'll never wake up in a good mood again.
I'm tired of these stinky boots

I am the Lizard King, I can do anything!

There's the know. And there's the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that's what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th' dooooooooorrr ...

Could any Hell be more horrible than now, and real?

In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night ... starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. 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.

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.

What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
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

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments.

Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts

Do you think you'll be the guy to make the queen of the angels sigh?

I'm gonna love you
Till the heavens
Stop the rain.

I'm gonna
Love you
Till the stars
Fall from the sky
For you and I

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

I don't think there should even be a president, man. I think we should have total democracy.

A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.

Ride the snake, to=the=lake, the ancient=lake BAAABYY! The snake is loooong, SEVEN miles! [$$] Riiide the snake~! She's OLD, her skin is COLD!~~//Ride the snaaaaake! THE WEST IS THE BEST!~ THE WEST IS THE BEST~~!!~~ [!!] oh yeah!//$\ COME ON! etc. snake/ride you get it...

My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition-to write something worthwhile.

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

Another flashing chance at bliss
Another kiss, another kiss

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

The Gate is Straight, Deep and Wide; Break On Through to the other side.

Five to one, baby
One in five
No one here gets out alive

I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

I pressed her thigh and death smiled

Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.

Love is a dream. Dreams are good, but do not be surprised if you wake up in tears.

The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.

The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet.

The Night is young & full of rest I can't describe the way she's dress'd She'll pander to some strange requests Anything that you suggest Anything to please her guest.

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.

Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel ... City of Night?

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security ... How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?

Music is your only friend.
Until the end.

There are images I need to complete my own reality.

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.

Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus.

Films are collections of dead pictures which are given artificial insemination.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just ... in between.

Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride.

Tell them you came, and saw, and looked
into my eyes and saw the shadow
of the guard receding.
Thoughts in time and out of season,
the hitchinker stood by the side of the road
and levelled his thumb in the
calm calculus of reason.
[ ... ]
Why does my mind circle around you?
Why do planets wonder what it
would be like to be you?
All your soft wild promises were words,
birds, endlessly in flight.

Take an Indian home to lunch.

Be always like the sea, than breaking up against cliffs it finds always the force to try again.

There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.

Death Makes Angels of us all.

Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb through the tide
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side.

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.

Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.

Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.

Sleep is an under-ocean dipped into each night.

I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.