Jim Morrison quotes

Jim Morrison was an American singer, songwriter, and poet, best known as the lead vocalist of The Doors. His charismatic stage presence and provocative lyrics made him an icon of 1960s counterculture. He remains one of the most influential and enigmatic figures in rock music history. Here are 140 of his quotes:

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. (Jim Morrison)
There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors. View quote
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Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you. View quote
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. View quote
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Hatred is a very underestimated emotion. View quote
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. View quote
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Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. View quote
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The future is uncertain but the end is always near. View quote
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I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me - ever. View quote
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Love cannot save you from your own fate. View quote
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. (Jim Morrison)
This is the strangest life I've ever known. View quote
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People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. View quote
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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. View quote
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. View quote
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Film spectators are quiet vampires. View quote
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Drugs are a bet with your mind. View quote
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. View quote
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The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death. View quote
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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. View quote
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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. (Jim Morrison)
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. View quote
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Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs. View quote
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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws. View quote
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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. View quote
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Jim Morrison

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Occupation: American Singer
Born: December 8, 1943
Died: July 3, 1971
Quotes count: 140
Wikipedia: Jim Morrison

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