70 great quotes by Jim Morrison

We review the best reflections of the vocalist and leader of The Doors.

James Douglas Morrison, more commonly known as Jim Morrisonwas a very important American singer-songwriter and poet born in 1943 in Melbourne, United States.

As a member and vocalist of the famous rock band "The Doors", Jim Morrison has been one of the most iconic voices of the twentieth century. During his career Morrison was associated with many other famous performers such as: Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, David Crosby and many others.

The best quotes of Jim Morrison, an incomparable musician.

His songs and personality made this artist one of the most influential performers in the world of rock. Do you want to know what were Jim Morrison's most famous quotes? In the text below you can discover them.

There are no laws, there are no rules, you just have to take your friend and love him.

Jim Morrison's parties were undoubtedly legendary.

2. Take it easy baby, take it as it comes.

Taking life easy is a philosophy that the singer himself followed.

3. Moments to live, moments to lie, moments to laugh and moments to die.

In life there are all kinds of moments, we must know how to adapt to each one.

4. Nobody would be interested if I were normal.

Every great artist has an eccentric personality.

5. Every generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

Morrison was undoubtedly an icon for his generation.

6. I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

Flirting with drugs was something very frequent at that time, this singer was no exception.

7. Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.

In this quote we can see the disenchantment Morrison had with life.

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

It is in the most extravagant situations that we can become the most free.

9. People are strange when you are a stranger.

Our personal predisposition affects how others treat us.

10. Actually, I remember not being born.

A very curious quote that shows us this artist's particular way of thinking.

11. No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

We must know how to seize the moment, perhaps we have a limited time in our life.

12. Music inflames the temperament.

Music is capable of provoking a great number of emotions.

13. I think that, inwardly, there is a considerable range of images and feelings that is rarely demonstrated in daily life... When these regions of images and feelings are externalized they can take on perverse forms.

We all think things that we then do not carry out in our lives, we must know how to differentiate which thoughts are positive for us and which are not.

14. Moviegoers are silent vampires.

As we can see in this sentence, Jim Morrison was not a great fan of the seventh art.

15. When you make peace with authority, you become the authority.

If we accept the established order, we will inevitably become part of it.

16. Where is your willingness to be weird?

We must defend our way of being, we are all unique in our own way.

17. Violence is not always bad. What is bad is falling in love with violence.

Violence is something Morrison felt somewhat free with, in a situation of chaos we are free to be who we really are.

18. The day I read that alcohol was bad for your health, I stopped reading.

No doubt he was a convinced drinker, as we can see.

19. Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and disappears. You are free.

We must not fall prey to fear, we must overcome it and learn to overcome it.

20. People fear death even more than they fear pain. It is strange that they fear death. Life hurts much more than death. In death, Pain is over.

A very peculiar way of understanding death, but it is true that death is also rest.

21. If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it is to develop people from the limited ways they see and feel.

This singer was trying with his music to help people overcome themselves. We all need to overcome our fears.

22. I won't go out there. You will have to go inside me.

To understand this artist's music, we must take a journey into his subconscious.

23. Revolt and only revolt is the creator of light, and light can only take three paths: poetry, freedom and love.

For Jim Morrison these aspects were the three fundamental pillars of his life (poetry, freedom and love).

24. Comrades, let us outlaw applause, the spectacle is everywhere.

We can create spectacle wherever we go, not just on a simple stage.

25. Love cannot save you from your own destiny.

Destiny is something that will come to all of us, regardless of who we are.

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

Our friends must accept us as we are, otherwise they are not really friends.

27. Keep your eyes on the road, your hands on the wheel.

Being focused is what will lead us to achieve our goals.

28. Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had round shoulders like crows' claws.

A very poetic phrase that wants to tell us that in death we will be free of any physical limitation.

29. 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.

We must not be swayed by the interests of those around us; we must be true to our purpose.

30. There is nothing wrong with being a large mammal.

Indeed, the human being is just another animal.

31. I believe in democracy. I don't believe there has to be a president. I think it should be a total democracy.

In this quote we can intuit how Morrison had rather republican ideas.

32. I am interested in anything about disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to make no sense. It seems to me to be the way to freedom.

In disorder and chaos, as this singer-songwriter says, we can find an environment where we can feel freer.

33. The attraction of cinema lies in the fear of death.

The cinema uses the morbidity that to part of the population the death transmits to him, to create great quantity of movies.

34. It may have been in pieces, but I gave it my best.

We must transmit our best version to our friends and family.

35. He who controls the media, controls the mind.

The great power of the media in the minds of the population.

36. Hate is a very underestimated emotion.

Hatred can wreak great havoc in society.

37. Our culture mocks primitive cultures and prides itself on the repression of natural instincts and impulses.

Indeed, Western society forces us to repress many of our instincts.

38. This is the strangest life I have ever known.

As rock stars we can live a very confused and accelerated life.

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

No doubt styling was a very important issue in Morrison's life.

40. Drugs are a gamble with your mind.

At that time the conception that many people had about drugs was different from today's idea.

41. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

When we are in pain, we can show how strong we are.

42. I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown that forces me to fly at the most important moments.

We should all value and love ourselves, Morrison evidently had a good self-concept.

43. The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Society is permanently on a tightrope; nowadays one event can change the course of history.

44. We fear violence less than we fear our own feelings.

We should know how to accept our feelings and learn to live with them.

45. A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them.

This was his personal definition of the term "hero": someone who against all odds rebels against injustice.

46. When other people expect us to be the way they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It is a very subtle form of killing. Most parents commit this crime with a smile on their lips.

We should not try to change other people; they should be who they really are.

47. I was just exploring the limits of reality. I would be curious to see what happens.

This singer looked to drugs as an escape from the life he was leading, something he shared with many other celebrities of the time.

48. The only people who interest me are the ones who are crazy, the people who are crazy to live, crazy to talk, crazy to save themselves, wanting everything at the same time.

As this quote says so well, we should live life to the fullest, take advantage of every second of it.

49. There are known things and unknown things, and in the middle are the Doors.

Where is our life headed? That is a question that depends on ourselves.

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

We should feel free to express ourselves openly, to show others what our personality is.

51. People who never yawn, never talk platitudes, but burn, burn like fabulous yellow rockets exploding like spiders among the stars.

Repressing our emotions can lead us to one day "explode" emotionally out of control.

52. I think that, internally, there is a considerable range of images and feelings that are rarely demonstrated in everyday life... When these regions of images and feelings are externalized they can take on perverse forms.

Many of us do not express or know how to express our emotions, and this can result in negative behavior in the future.

53. We want the World, and we want it now!

The ambition of this group knew no bounds, they knew they were capable of anything.

54. I could be a journalist. I think interviews are the new art form. I believe that self-interviewing is the essence of creativity. That is, ask yourself questions and try to find your own answers. After all, what a writer does is answer a series of unspoken questions.

In interviews we can show the media what we are really like.

55. I am the man of freedom, that's all the fortune I have.

Feeling free can make us much happier men.

56. I am the Lizard King, I can do anything.

One of Jim Morrison's most famous nicknames: The Lizard King.

57. Man, I'm sick of doubts.

In order to achieve our goal, we must not hesitate to do what we have to do.

58. Hey, listen. I used to think it was all a big joke. I thought it was something to laugh about, and the last couple of weeks I met some people who were doing something. They were trying to change the world and now I want to join the journey. I want to change the world.

Feeling free was something this singer pursued throughout his life.

59. Listen, true poetry says nothing; it only shows options. Open all doors. You can go through any entrance you want.

For Morrison, poetry was also a great escape, an art where he could express himself freely.

60. That's what real love is all about: letting a person be who he or she really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending, acting. You come to love your pretense. It's true, we are trapped in an image, in an act, and the sad thing is that people get so used to their image and get hooked on their masks. They love their chains. They forget 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.

We should not change the way we are in order to maintain a relationship; who we are is something much more important.

61. We could plan an assassination or start a religion.

Man is capable of everything, everything positive and everything negative in society.

62. Now listen to this... I'll tell you about Texas radio and the big beat.

In interviews Morrison showed how he was, the character he possessed won him a good number of fans.

63. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone could inflict.

Emotional pain can be very difficult to bear, the comfort of others may not help us at times.

64. The time for doubt has passed.

By being true to ourselves we will achieve all that we set out to do.

65. We are on our way and cannot turn back.

The Doors' rise was seen by everyone as unstoppable.

66. This is the end, beautiful friend.

One of Jim Morrison's most famous quotes, in the famous song "The End".

67. I'll never look into your eyes again.

With a look we can get to know what the other person is thinking.

68. So limited and free.

We can have no material goods but still feel completely free.

69. The streets are immortal fields.

The streets are where society interacts, the big cities seem to have no end.

70. Warm my mind by your soft oven.

In the songs of "The Doors", their lyrics often talk about personal relationships.