Jim Morrison Quotes

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

Jim Morrison

Giving Up, Freedom, Hippie

"Take Off The Mask" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2016.

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Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

Jim Morrison

Life, Media, Uprising

"Readers recommend: songs about control" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2015.

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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Jim Morrison

Best Friend, Friendship, Being Yourself

"Indulge In Your Friendships — The Best Reinvention Of Them All" by Kathi Sharpe-Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2013.

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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.

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Inspirational, Positive, Freedom

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Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

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Baby, Lying, Hippie

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People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it.

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Pain, Love Is, Reality

"Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

Jim Morrison

Knowledge, Doors, Perception

Tagline to "The Doors" Documentary, 1991.

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That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image - they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it - they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.

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Love, Self Esteem, Hate

"Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

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Time, Ends, Uncertain

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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.

Jim Morrison

Stars, Looks, Gone

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

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Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal

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Normal, Ifs

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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. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

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Death, Hurt, Pain

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It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

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Pieces, May, Best Of Me

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I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.

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Flames, Want, Kicks

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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

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Love You, Self Worth, People

"Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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No one here gets out alive.

Jim Morrison

Life, Death, Alive

"Five to One" (song) (1968)

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Music is your only friend until the end...

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Ends, Music Is

"Song: When the Music's Over (Strange Days)". September 25, 1967.

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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.

Jim Morrison

People, Way, Achieve

Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

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Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

"Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin... The program for this evening is not new. You've seen this entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?

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World, May, Evening

"Fictional character: Jim Morrison". "The Doors", 1991.

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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...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

Important, Levels, Firsts

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Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.

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Drunk, Drink, Disguise

Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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This is the strangest life I've ever known.

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Doors, Known

"Song: 'Waiting for the Sun'". 1970.

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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.

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Hilarious, Blow, Intelligent

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Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality...

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Reality, Testing, Bounds

"Fictional character: Jim Morrison". "The Doors", 1991.

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Born: December 8, 1943
Died: July 3, 1971
Occupation: Singer
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