Jim Morrison
You cannot petition the lord with prayer!Collection: Prayer
All our songs are about love, travel and death.Collection: Song
All games contain the idea of death.Collection: Games
The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.Collection: Summer
O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.Collection: Art
My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.Collection: Writing
No one gets out of here alive.Collection: Alive
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.Collection: War
I wonder why people like to believe I'm high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.Collection: Believe
I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.Collection: Art
The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun.Collection: Evil
The Night is young & full of rest I can’t describe the way she’s dress’d She’ll pander to some strange requests Anything that you suggest Anything to please her guest.Collection: Night
I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.Collection: Chaos
Death Makes Angels of us all.Collection: Angel
There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.Collection: Mammals
the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyreCollection: Funeral
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.Collection: Memories
Blood is the rose of mysterious union.Collection: Blood
We are content in the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.Collection: Eye
There are images I need to complete my own reality.Collection: Reality
I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!Collection: Kings
In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music.Collection: Song
The gate is straight, Deep and wide, Break on through to the other side...Collection: Sides
No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.Collection: Thinking
Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.Collection: Starting
I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.Collection: Music
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day's divinity! First thing you see!!Collection: Divinity
The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.Collection: Lovers
A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments.Collection: Hero
In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises.Collection: Hair
We want the world and we want it...Collection: World
The subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected.Collection: Firsts
Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion.Collection: Lying
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.Collection: Song
...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.Collection: America
Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music.Collection: Fire
the human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soon Ship of FoolsCollection: Moon
I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines.Collection: Tape
She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus.Collection: Jesus
Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.Collection: Travel
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.Collection: Doors
Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's clawsCollection: Angel
Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.Collection: Children
I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.Collection: Mean
We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streetsCollection: Lust
The best songs come unasked for. You don't have to think about them . . . Summer is good for songs. When it's real warm, if you have a sense of freedom, not a lot on your mind, and a feeling there's plenty of time, it just seems to be a good climate for music.Collection: Summer