Jim Morrison citations

Cinema derives not from painting, literature, sculpture, theater, but from ancient popular wizardry. It is a contemporary manifestation of an evolving history of shadows, a delight in pictures that move, a belief in magic. Its lineage is entwined from the earliest beginning with Priests and sorcery, a summoning of phantomas. With, at first, only slight aid ofthe mirror and fire, men called up dark and secret visits from regions in the buried mind. In these seances, shades are spirits which ward off devil.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969

All games contain the idea of death.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969

Cinema is the most totalitarian of the arts. All energy and sensation is sucked up into the skull, a cerebral erection, skull bloated with blood.
Caligula wished a single neck for all his subjects that he could behead a kingdom with one blow. Cinema is this transforming agent. The body exists for the sake of the eyes; it becomes a dry stalk to support these two soft insatiable jewels.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (The Lords : Notes on Vision), 1969

It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on whithout any eyes. The spectator cannot exist whithout it. It insures his existence.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969

You can enjoy the life from afar. You may look at things but not taste them. You may caress the mother only with the eyes.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969

The cleavage of men into actor and spectators is the central fact of our time.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969

Each film depends upon all others and drives you on to others. Cinema was a novelty, a scientific toy, until a sufficient body of works has been amassed, enough to create an intermittent other world, a powerful, inifite mythology to be dipped into at will.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969

"Five to One" on the album Waiting for the Sun (1968)
Variante: Five to one, baby
One in five
No one here gets out alive
Contexte: Five to one, baby
One in five
No one here gets out alive, now
You get yours, baby
I'll get mine
Gonna make it, baby
If we try.

Source: Eyes: Poetry, 1967-1971

An American Prayer (1978)
Contexte: 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.

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

"People Are Strange" on the album Strange Days (1967)
Contexte: 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.

An American Prayer (1978)

An American Prayer (1978)
Contexte: 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?