Jim Morrison

Musician, Poet

Jim Morrison was the lead singer of The Doors, known for his poetic lyrics and exploration of freedom and rebellion in music.

Born
December 8, 1943
Died
July 3, 1971
Quotes
164
Rank
#474

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"Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science."

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"No one gets out of here alive."

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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"

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"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts."

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"Music is your only friend until the end..."

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"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."

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"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."

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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"

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"We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us"

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

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"I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing."

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"I pressed her thigh and death smiled"

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

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"Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical."

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

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"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"

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

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