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“I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.”

Jim Morrison

“You've seen your birth, your
life and death; you might recall
all of the rest — (did you
have a good world when you
died?) — enough to base
a movie on?”

Jim Morrison

An American Prayer (1978)
Context: The program for this evening
is not new. You have seen
This entertainment through and through.
You've seen your birth, your
life and death; you might recall
all of the rest — (did you
have a good world when you
died?) — enough to base
a movie on?

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”

Jim Morrison

“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

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”

Jim Morrison

“People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone”

Jim Morrison

"People Are Strange" on the album Strange Days (1967)
Context: People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven when you're down.

“Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god”

Jim Morrison

An American Prayer (1978)
Context: Now listen to this...
Ill tell you about texas radio and the big beat
Soft driven, slow and mad Like some new language
Reaching your head with the cold, sudden fury of a divine messenger
Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god
Wandering, wandering in hopeless night
Out here in the perimeter there are no stars...
Out here we is stoned...
Immaculate.

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade for a role, you give up your ability to feel and in exchange put up a mask”

Jim Morrison

“Man, I'm sick of doubt.”

Jim Morrison

“No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.”

Jim Morrison

Source: Wilderness: The Lost Writings, Vol. 1

“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.”

Jim Morrison

As quoted in Straight Whisky: A Living History of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll on the Sunset Strip (2003), by Erik Quisling, and Austin Lowry Williams p. 152

“Indian, Indian what did you die for?
Indian says, nothing at all.”

Jim Morrison

An American Prayer (1978)

“I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.”

Jim Morrison

Source: Eyes: Poetry, 1967-1971

“Film spectators are quiet vampires.”

Jim Morrison

“Where's your will to be weird?”

Jim Morrison

“There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirming like a toad.”

Jim Morrison

"Riders on the Storm" from the album L.A. Woman (1971).