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Jim Morrison: [to the audience] You're all a bunch of fuckin' slaves! How long you think it's gonna last? How long are you gonna let them push you around? I'll tell you this - I'm gonna get my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames!
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Jim Morrison: Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
Patricia Kennealy: I doesn't matter anymore, does it? You hear them out there? It's you they want now. Not the Doors, not your mother or your father's child... it's you.
Jim Morrison: They don't want me, they want my death - ripped to pieces.
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Jim Morrison: [to John] Where's your will to be weird, man?
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Jim Morrison: Look, Patricia. I got this trial that's hanging on me and I can't afford the responsibility.
Patricia Kennealy: You're a coward! It's a little boy! The only way you can afford it is emotionally. Those vows are forever in the goddess' sight. Death does not part, only lack of love.
Jim Morrison: Come on, Patricia. I was stoned. It seemed like a fun thing to do at the time.
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Jim Morrison: I believe in a long prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown... Although I live in the subconscious, our pale reason hides the infinite from us.
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Pamela Courson: [about Patricia] You actually put your dick in this woman?
Jim Morrison: Well I... sometimes, yeah.
Pamela Courson: Well, I understand, I really do. But don't ever think that Jim's gonna love you or take care of you. Because you're one of a hundred, you know?
Jim Morrison: Hey, you don't know when to stop!
Pamela Courson: [about Jim] Look who's talking.
Patricia Kennealy: I'd like to think Jim can make up his own mind who he loves and who he doesn't.
Pamela Courson: Well, don't kid yourself sweetheart. He's crazy but he's not that crazy. He loves me.
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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 to the room where his sister lived / And he paid to a visit to his brother / And then he walked on down the hall / And he came to a door / And he looked inside.
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Patricia Kennealy: What do you parents think about what you're doing?
Jim Morrison: Actually, I don't remember being born. It must have happened during one of my blackouts.
Patricia Kennealy: But they must have expressed some feeling?
Jim Morrison: Well, to tell you the truth, they're not living anymore, so I really don't like to talk about that.
Patricia Kennealy: Could you at least tell us how they died?
Jim Morrison: It was a horrible car crash in the desert in New Mexico. In the fifties, my father ran into a truck full of Navajos. They were all over the highway, bleeding. Their souls kind of stirring in the breeze, just left in the mind.
Patricia Kennealy: I'm sorry.
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Jim Morrison: This is the strangest life I've ever known.
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Jim Morrison: Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
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Andy Warhol: [giving Jim a golden telephone] Somebody gave me this telephone... I think it was Edie... yeah it was Edie... and she said I could talk to God with it, but uh... I don't have anything to say... so here... this is for you... now you can talk to God.
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Warhol PR: Andy Warhol IS art. We must ask ourselves, does Andy imitate life or does life imitate Andy?
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Pamela Courson: You killed my duck!
Jim Morrison: I killed your duck?
[Jim stomps on the duck]
Jim Morrison: And I'm still killing your fucking duck. There! Murder! Death! Duck! Dead! Death fucking dead! There, the duck is dead!
Ray Manzarek: [shouts] Jim, will stop this shit? Will you get sane?
Jim Morrison: And don't you ever tell me what to do, ever!
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Jim Morrison: [to John] What's a rock and roll band for man, if you can't party all night and do bad things? Let's plan a murder or start a religion.
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Interviewer: What are your songs about, Mr. Morrison?
Jim Morrison: Uh, love, death, travel, revolt. We all write the songs. I'm only interested in chaos, disorder, especially activities which seem to have no meaning... Like This. I think when you make peace with authority, you become authority.
Interviewer: Can you define that a little more?
Jim Morrison: Yeah, you can call us erotic politicians, I guess.
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Jim Morrison: Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality - that's all - I was curious. I kinda always preferred to be hated. Like Eric Von Stroheim in the movies, the man you love to hate, it's meant to be ironic, like courage wants to laugh. You know, it's a stupid situation.
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Jim Morrison: I go out on a stage and I howl for people. In me, they see exactly what they want to see - some say the Lizard King, whatever that means, or some black-clad leather demon, whatever that means. But really, I think of myself as a sensitive, intelligent human being, but with the soul of a clown that always forces me to blow it at the most crucial moment. I'm a fake hero, a joke the gods played on me.
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Pamela Courson: [after Jim sang his poem] I love it when you sing to me.
Jim Morrison: [smiles] That's 'cause I'm the poet and you're my muse.
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John Densmore: You're pushing death, Morrison! Everybody thinks we're drug addicts 'cause of you!
Jim Morrison: What - are we the Beatles now, John?
John Densmore: We took drugs to expand our minds, not to escape!
Jim Morrison: Listen, John. Have you ever eaten human flesh? Cause I know this chick in New York!
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Jim Morrison: I just want to sing the blues, man - get fat, do nothing, go nowhere, just be.
Tom Baker: With that waistline, Jimbo, you ain't got much choice.
Jim Morrison: What's wrong with being a large mammal, a big beast like a tank? I feel great!
Tom Baker: You mean "King Crawling Flab"? Rock is cock, babe, and you're rock is dying.
Jim Morrison: Rock is death, man! There's no longer belief. I'll write poetry and direct movies.
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Pamela Courson: Are you doing this for you? Because you're a poet, not a rock star. You don't even belong on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Jim Morrison: You really know what I am, Pam? You know what poetry is? Where is the feast they promised us? Where is the wine - the new wine - dying on the vine?
Pamela Courson: What are you saying?
Jim Morrison: You see - I lied to you. I love fame, I DO love fame!
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Jim Morrison: We're gonna fuck death away!
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Jim Morrison: Come on, let's get some tacos.
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Jim Morrison: [quoted in his film class project] Nietzsche said "All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity."
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Jim Morrison: Isn't that irony? Teenage death girls want my dick not my words.
Pamela Courson: It's not so complicated, Jim. It's just sex, you know?
Jim Morrison: I'll never wake up in a good mood again.
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Jim Morrison: [stands up] I'm lying, I *am* afraid.
[Jim turns around and walks away]
Pamela Courson: [calling after him] Jim! Don't go away! Come dance with me!
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Jim Morrison: I think I'm having a nervous breakdown.
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Robby Krieger: I'm afraid of my father. I can't be what they want me to be.
Jim Morrison: Maybe you should kill your father.
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Ray Manzarek: I'm in pain, man. I feel the universe functioning perfectly but I'm still perfectly locked inside myself. Instead of oneness, I feel total isolation. Aloneness. Fear... pain... Jim, all I feel is pain.
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Jim Morrison: [to the audience] Adolf Hitler is alive and well and living in Miami! I fucked her last night!
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[during their peyote trip in the desert]
Jim Morrison: Close your eyes. We'll see the snake; see the serpent appear. His head is ten feet long and five feet wide. He has one red eye and one green eye. He's seven miles long. Deadly. I see all the history of the world on his scales, all people, all actions. We're all just little pictures on his scales. God, he's big, he's moving, devouring consciousness, digesting power. Monster of energy. It's a monster. We're going to kiss the snake on the tongue. Kiss the serpent. But if it senses fear, it'll eat us instantly. But if we kiss it without fear, it'll take us through the garden, through the gate, to the other side. Ride the snake... until the end of time.
John Densmore: I think I'm fucked up, man. I'm not thinking right.
[Jim tilts his head back and laughs lazily]
John Densmore: Look at your eyes, man... your death.
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Tom Baker: [to Jim] You're bored, you're not free. You tested all the limits - fame, fucking, money - whatcha gonna do when your music's over, Jim? When you're too fat and old to go out on stage, whatcha gonna do for act three - puke on Heaven's door?
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Ray Manzarek: [to Jim] Things are about to explode, man. You can feel it in the air. People want to fight or fuck, love or kill. Vietnam is right over there. Sides are being chosen, everything is gonna flame. That planet is screaming for change, Morrison. We gotta make the myths, man!
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Jim Morrison: Hey! I am the Lizard King! I can do anything! Come on, raise your hands if you understand! Let's take a poll - how many of you people know you're alive?
[numerous people raise their hands and shout]
Jim Morrison: Bullshit! Plastic soldiers in a miniature dirt war! Come on, how many of know you're alive? How many of you people know you're *really* alive?
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Ray Manzarek: [Imitating Bob Dylan's singing voice] Johnny's in the basement mixing up the medicine, I'm on the pavement thinking about the government.
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Interviewer: Name, occupation?
Pamela Courson: Pamela Morrison, ornament.
Interviewer: Name, occupation?
Robby Krieger: Robby Krieger, guitar player.
Interviewer: Name, occupation?
John Densmore: John Densmore, percussionist, 23 years old. Far out, man!
Interviewer: Name, occupation?
Ray Manzarek: Raymond Daniel Manzarek, born 2/12/39, musician, organist.
Interviewer: Name, occupation?
Jim Morrison: [smiles] Uh, Jim.
The Doors Quotes
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