Jim Morrison Quotes - Page 6

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• 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

  Writing, Ambition, Reality

  "When You’re Strange" by Daniel Nester, www.poetryfoundation.org. October 19, 2011.

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

  Jim Morrison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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

  Jim Morrison

  Travel, Drama, Giving

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• 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

  Jim Morrison

  Angel, Wings, Ravens

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• 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

  Doors, Cities, Kind

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• The best songs come unasked for. You don't have to think about them . . . Summer is good for songs. When it's real warm, if you have a sense of freedom, not a lot on your mind, and a feeling there's plenty of time, it just seems to be a good climate for music.

  Jim Morrison

  Summer, Song, Real

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• Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

  Jim Morrison

  Children, Mind, Crowds

  Song: The Ghost Song

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• A moving or movement away from a station
  A waving away from a waving a motion
  Amazement a moment amazing a waving

  Jim Morrison

  Travel, Moving, Movement

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• 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

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets

  Jim Morrison

  Lust, Insane, Theatre

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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?

  Jim Morrison

  Life, Morning, Night

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• The spectator is a dying animal.

  Jim Morrison

  Animal, Dying, Spectators

  Jim Morrison (1971). “The Lords and The New Creatures”, Touchstone

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• I pressed her thigh and death smiled

  Jim Morrison

  Thighs

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• Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.

  Jim Morrison

  Giving, Magic, Hours

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• I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft.

  Jim Morrison

  Together

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• Do you know we are ruled by T.V.?

  Jim Morrison

  Knows, Do You Know

  "Song: "An American Prayer" ("An American Prayer")". November 17, 1978.

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

  Jim Morrison

  Sad, Tired, Wake Up

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• 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

  Blood, Fats, Young

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• Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin...

  Jim Morrison

  Dignity, Ceremony

  "Fictional character: Jim Morrison". "The Doors", 1991.

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• 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

  Jim Morrison

  Blue, Other Worlds, Space

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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.

  Jim Morrison

  Mass Culture, Rocks, People

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• Take an Indian home to lunch.

  Jim Morrison

  Home, Lunch, Indian

  When asked how the USA should celebrate the Bicentennial, as quoted in "Avant Garde" Magazine, March 1968.

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• 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

  Drinking, Night, Gambling

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

  Jim Morrison

  Angel, Joy, Waiting

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• You know the day destroys the night, Night divides the day, Tried to run, Tried to hide, Break on through to the other side...

  Jim Morrison

  Running, Night, Sides

  "Song: Break On Through (To The Other Side)". January 1, 1967.

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