Top 166 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Morrison - Page 3

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

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

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

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?

A moving or movement away from a station A waving away from a waving a motion Amazement a moment amazing a waving

No one gets out of here alive.

Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v.

I pressed her thigh and death smiled

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

Do you know we are ruled by T.V.?

In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises.

Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.

A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments.

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

Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.

We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets

You live you die and death not ends it.

You know the day destroys the night, Night divides the day, Tried to run, Tried to hide, Break on through to the other side...

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.

All games contain the idea of death.

I'll never wake up in a good mood again. I'm tired of these stinky boots

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

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

We want the world and we want it...

The spectator is a dying animal.

Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.

The best songs come unasked for. You don't have to think about them . . . Summer is good for songs. When it's real warm, if you have a sense of freedom, not a lot on your mind, and a feeling there's plenty of time, it just seems to be a good climate for music.

My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

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

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

Take an Indian home to lunch.

Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss

Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin...

Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music.

Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion.

The subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected.

She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus.

the human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soon Ship of Fools

The time you wait subtracts the joy The heads the angel you destroy

They got the guns But we got the numbers.

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.

The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet.

...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines.