"Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was curiosity."
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Jim Morrison quotes (page 7 of 9)
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"Man, I'm sick of doubt."
"Music inflames temperament."
"The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game."
"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."
"I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences."
"Do you know we are ruled by T.V.?"
"Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?"
"That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is."
"Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss"
"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."
"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."
"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"
"I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft."
"Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be?"
"The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs."
"You live you die and death not ends it."
"All games contain the idea of death."
"The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death."
"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."