Famous Quotes

by

Jim Morrison

Birth name James Douglas Morrison

Also known as The Lizard King, Mr. Mojo Risin' (anagram of "Jim Morrison")

Born December 8, 1943 Melbourne, Florida, U.S.

Died July 3, 1971 (aged 27) Paris, France

Genres Psychedelic rock, blues rock, acid rock, rock and roll, hard rock

Occupations musician, songwriter, poet, filmmaker, actor

Instruments Vocals, maracas, harmonica, tambourine, keyboards

Years active 1963–1971

Labels Elektra, Columbia

Jim Morrison Quotes Film spectators are quiet vampires. -Jim Morrison A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. -Jim Morrison I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have

no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical. -Jim Morrison

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs. -Jim Morrison

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. -Jim Morrison

Drugs are a bet with your mind. -Jim Morrison Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves

from their predecessors. -Jim Morrison Friends can help each other. 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. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. -Jim Morrison

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion. -Jim Morrison 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 I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. -Jim

Morrison 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

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable. -Jim Morrison Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom

shrinks and vanishes. You are free. -Jim Morrison I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow

it at the most important moments. -Jim Morrison I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. -Jim

Morrison I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always

forces me to blow it at the most important moments. -Jim Morrison If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they

see and feel. -Jim Morrison 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

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence. -Jim Morrison