Quotes from Jim Morrison

Music inflames temperament.

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

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Drugs are a bet with the mind

I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road towards freedom - external freedom is a way to bring about internal freedom.

Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity

It hurts to set you free, but you'll never follow me.

Cancel my subscription to the resurrection,Send my credentials to the house of detention.

Desperately in need of some stranger's handIn a desperate land

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.

Music inflames temperament.

Where's your will to be weird?

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

Killer on the road / His brain is squirming like a toad.

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

Lost in a Roman wilderness of painAnd all the children are insane

Come on, baby, light my fireTry to set the night on fire.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.