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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"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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"The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game."

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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."

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"Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?"

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"Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss"

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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 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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"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"

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

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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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"The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs."

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"You live you die and death not ends it."

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"All games contain the idea of death."

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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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