Jim Morrison Quotes

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

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors. ~ Jim Morrison

I didn't love Jim Morrison. There was something very reptilian about him. And I didn't care for his singing, but his band! The Doors were fantastic. ~ Linda Ronstadt

Sleep is an under-ocean dipped into each night. ~ Jim Morrison

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

I pressed her thigh and death smiled ~ Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison had star quality and he's dead. Star quality's no good to you when you're dead. ~ Neil Walker

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

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? ~ Jim Morrison

That Jim Morrison song gets it all wrong. People are strange when you're a stranger, but it's not because they ignore you - it's when they notice you and smile, that's when you realize you're alone out here. Their kindness is what makes you notice how weak you are. That's when you know it's not the city's fault, it's yours. These people are in the same strange town, but they're not letting the strangeness eat them up and turn them into robots. That's just you. ~ Rob Sheffield

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

Most people love you for who you pretend to be. ~ Jim Morrison

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. ~ Jim Morrison

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority. ~ Jim Morrison

[ ... ] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands. ~ Jim Morrison

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. ~ Jim Morrison

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. ~ Jim Morrison

the west
the best ... ~ Jim Morrison

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

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

You sound almost bitter about it."
"I am. Life is a cheat. A tease. If you're born into a happy or comfortable existence, then you grow attached to it and some day it's taken from you for one reason or another. And if you're born into suffering, then things are that much worse. No matter how your life begins or unfolds, as Jim Morrison so poetically put it, 'No one here gets out alive. ~ Zack Love

You feel your strength in the experience of pain. ~ Jim Morrison

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

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. ~ Jim Morrison

Take an Indian home to lunch. ~ Jim Morrison

Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama. ~ Jim Morrison

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. ~ Jim Morrison

We want the world, and we want it now! ~ Jim Morrison

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

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

Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding. ~ Jim Morrison

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. ~ Jim Morrison

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind. ~ Patti Smith

Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals. ~ Grace Slick

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

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. ~ Jim Morrison

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 ~ Jim Morrison

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

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

Films are collections of dead pictures which are given artificial insemination. ~ Jim Morrison

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

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

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. ~ Jim Morrison

I looked over and Jim Morrison was dancing the jitterbug with my grandmother on the coffee table. ~ Taylor Negron

Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix. ~ Kanye West

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. ~ Jim Morrison

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

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

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. ~ Jim Morrison

Well, I've been down so Goddamn long,
that it looks like up to me. ~ Jim Morrison

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD ... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it ~ Jim Morrison

When I was a young man, and the Russkies were going to blow us all to Kingdom Come, we were told we'd have a four-minute warning. I'm talking Ford, Carter, Reagan Days. Four minutes, I used to wonder ... What would I do in four minutes? Boil an egg, have sex, telephone my enemies to have the final word, listen to Jim Morrison, hotwire a car and drive three blocks? ~ David Mitchell

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

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

Music is your only friend.
Until the end. ~ Jim Morrison

Another flashing chance at bliss
Another kiss, another kiss ~ Jim Morrison

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

They got the guns, but we got the numbers. ~ Jim Morrison

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

Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world. ~ Nico

[ ... ] 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. ~ Jim Morrison

In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. ~ Patti Smith

What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison. ~ Patti Smith

I don't like categorizing stuff, but women's roles all through history have been to act as hierophant or someone who's guarded the secrets or guarded the temple. I'm a girl doing what guys usually did, the way that I look, the goals and kinds of things I want to help achieve through rock. It's more heroic stuff and heroic stuff has been traditionally male. Like Hendrix and Jim Morrison and all those people. I mean, Jim Morrison was trying to elevate the word; he was the poet in rock & roll before me. He was an academic poet. Lou Reed
another academic poet. I'm more like down-to-earth than them guys ~ Patti Smith

We are content with the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark. ~ Jim Morrison

I like a man who wears his soul on his face. ~ Jim Morrison

I was cut out of The Doors. I was Okie Girl, a groupie. The powers that be thought that my character made Jim Morrison look too sleazy, if you can imagine. I saw the movie-it was so loud I had a headache for three days. ~ Jennifer Tilly

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

Where's your will to be weird? ~ Jim Morrison

To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us. ~ Patrick Swayze

Adolescence and early youth ... the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands ... and rock is screaming type music. ~ Jim Morrison

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

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

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

the magazine compared him with John Lennon from the Beatles. I told that to Sam later, and she got really mad. She said he was like Jim Morrison if he was like anybody, but really, he isn't like anybody but himself. ~ Stephen Chbosky

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 ... ~ Jim Morrison

Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me."
I probably still haven't completely adapted to the world," I said after giving it some thought. "I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me."
Midori rested an elbow on the bar and looked at me. "There was something like that in a Jim Morrison song, I'm pretty sure."
People are strange when you're a stranger. ~ Haruki Murakami

Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel. ~ Jim Morrison

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

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

Ah ken the junk gits bad press, but ah think it's barry. It's easy tae criticize something fae outside, but yuv goat tae experience eveything in life, ken? Thinkay how shitey things would huv been for eveycat if Jim Morrison hudnae droaped acid. He widnae broken oan through tae the other side n aw barry tunes wid be shiter as a result ... it aw disnae goaway on skag:it jist disnae bother ye any mair. ~ Irvine Welsh

Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison, and Pablo Picasso. ~ Alice Cooper

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

The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody else could have played. Pacino owned Michael Corleone ... but DeNiro could have owned it as well. Who else, though, but Val Kilmer could have nailed Jim Morrison? Does anyone besides Will Ferrell pull off Ron Burgundy? ~ Bill Simmons

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

Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts ~ Jim Morrison

The time you wait subtracts the joy
The heads the angel you destroy ~ Jim Morrison

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

Take it easy baby, take it as it comes - specialize in having fun! ~ Jim Morrison

Urge to come to terms with the "Outside," by absorbing, interiorizing it. I won't come out, you must come in to me. Into my womb-garden where I peer out. Where I can construct a universe within the skull, to rival the real. ~ 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

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

We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves ~ Jim Morrison

There are images I need to complete my own reality. ~ Jim Morrison

Death Makes Angels of us all. ~ Jim Morrison

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

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun ... ~ Jim Morrison

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 ~ Jim Morrison

I was onstage with Menudo since I was 12 years old. To us, the most successful one was the guy with the most fans. If you moved your hips and the girls screamed, you were getting it right. Who wouldn't want to be like Elvis or Jim Morrison! ~ Ricky Martin

Two of the guys that were honorary Vampires - Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix - had died at 27. And they were certainly archangels in our group. ~ Alice Cooper