Jim Morrison Quotes
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I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines.
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Music is your only friend until the end...
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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.
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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 pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act...
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it.
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I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.
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Each day is a drive through history.
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Blood is the rose of mysterious union.
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We want the world and we want it...
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Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
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You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
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Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.
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I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.
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Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
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Always a playground instructor, never a Killer
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The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
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Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be?
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I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.
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Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
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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.
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Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural – a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.
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I wonder why people like to believe I'm high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.
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I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.