Jim Morrison Quotes
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101. “I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.”

— Jim Morrison

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

— Jim Morrison

103. “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.”

— Jim Morrison

104. “I like a man who wears his soul on his face.”

— Jim Morrison

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

— Jim Morrison

106. “There’s nothing wrong with being a large mammal.”

— Jim Morrison

107. “When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.”

— Jim Morrison

108. “One shouldn’t take life so seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.”

— Jim Morrison

109. “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

110. “We are content in 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

111. “She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.”

— Jim Morrison

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

— Jim Morrison

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

— Jim Morrison

114. “All our songs are about love, travel and death.”

— Jim Morrison

115. “How can I set free anyone who doesn’t have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?”

— Jim Morrison

116. “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.”

— Jim Morrison

117. “I don’t think there should even be a president, man. I think we should have total democracy.”

— Jim Morrison

118. “Films are collections of dead pictures which are given artificial insemination.”

— Jim Morrison

119. “Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.”

— Jim Morrison

120. “I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.”

— Jim Morrison

121. “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.”

— Jim Morrison

122. “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.”

— Jim Morrison

123. “I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain.”

— Jim Morrison

124. “All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.”

— Jim Morrison

125. “I’ll always be a word man, better than a bird man.”

— Jim Morrison

126. “We need great golden copulations.”

— Jim Morrison

127. “Do you think you’ll be the guy to make the queen of the angels sigh?”

— Jim Morrison

128. “Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.”

— Jim Morrison

129. “Man, I’m sick of doubt.”

— Jim Morrison

130. “I’“ll never look into your eyes again.”

— Jim Morrison

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

— Jim Morrison

132. “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.”

— Jim Morrison

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

— Jim Morrison

134. “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

135. “Look where we worship.”

— Jim Morrison

136. “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

137. “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

138. “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

139. “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