Jim Morrison The Doors Quotes & Sayings

The nature of the kingdom must mature within you — Sunday Adelaja

Look where we worship. — Jim Morrison

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors. — Jim Morrison

The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present. — Steve Toltz

I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can't drag people through. — Jim Morrison

The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band. — Ray Manzarek

I didn't love Jim Morrison. There was something very reptilian about him. And I didn't care for his singing, but his band! The Doors were fantastic. — Linda Ronstadt

It is exactly when others insist that it's a sign of being free, fresh, and radical to do what everybody's doing that you might want to take notice and think for yourself. Don't be surprised if this is really hard to do. — Jaron Lanier

Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself ... swore to myself ... that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies ... now I can't even tell one from the other. — George R R Martin

Although knowledge of how things work is sufficient to allow manipulation of nature, what humans really want to know is why things work. Children don't ask how the sky is blue. They ask why the sky is blue. — Michael Crichton

I am never usually taking myself too seriously and I think that people when they read stuff from me, they have to realise that I'm having fun. — Katy Perry

I like my baths really deep and hot. But washing everything only takes a few minutes. So I thought it would be a waste to just flush all that water away. So there was nothing else to do but take pictures of myself trying to look as horrendous as possible. Oh my, what have I started? — Ricky Gervais

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

This is the strangest life I have ever known. — Jim Morrison

I'm serious, baby. The Doors are the only western rock band that really gets the heart and soul of Japan. A samurai knows that he can die at any time. That's what makes life precious. And don't even talk to me about lame hippie whiners like John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater revival. Jim Morrison . . . samurai! John Fogerty . . . ham on rye! — Carol Storm

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. — Jim Morrison

The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on.
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and ... then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door ... and he looked inside
Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother ... I want to ... fuck you — The Doors

'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters. — Patrick DeWitt

People become artists out of despair. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. — Alice Walker

I was cut out of The Doors. I was Okie Girl, a groupie. The powers that be thought that my character made Jim Morrison look too sleazy, if you can imagine. I saw the movie-it was so loud I had a headache for three days. — Jennifer Tilly

The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin. — Saint Augustine