Quotes

Jim Morrison: You're all a bunch of fuckin' slaves! How much longer are you gonna let them push you around?

Jim Morrison: Where's your will to be weird?

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.

John: I don't know if I want to take acid.

Jim Morrison: Relax, it's peyote.

Jim Morrison: This is the strangest life I've ever known.

Andy Warhol: 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...

[giving Jim the phone]

Andy Warhol: this is for you... now you can talk to God.

Pamela: You killed my duck!

Jim Morrison: I killed your duck?

[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!

Jim Morrison: Love, death, travel, revolt, chaos.

Jim Morrison: I'm a fake hero.

Jim Morrison: I'm the poet and you're my muse.

Jim Morrison: What's wrong with being a large mammal?

Interviewer: Do you believe in drugs?

Jim Morrison: I believe in excess...

Jim Morrison: Come on, let's get some tacos.

Jim Morrison: [quoted in Jim Morrison's 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."

Jim Morrison: [stands up] I'm lying, I *am* afraid.

[Jim turns around and walks away]

Pamela: [calling after him] Jim! Don't go away! Come dance with me!

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.

Jim Morrison: I'm gonna get my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.

[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: I think I'm fucked up, man. I'm not thinking right.

[Jim tilts his head back and laughs lazily]

John: Look at your eyes, man... your death.

[after Pamela and Jim's fight over the duck]

Ray Manzarek: Jim, will you stop this shit! Will you get sane!

Jim Morrison: I am the Lizard King. I can do anything.

Interviewer: Name, occupation?

Pamela: Pamela Morrison, ornament.

Interviewer: Name, occupation?

Robby Krieger: Robby Krieger, guitar player.

Interviewer: Name, occupation?

John: John Densmore, percussionist, 23 years old. Far out, man!

Interviewer: Name, occupation?

Ray Manzarek: Raymond Daniel Manzarek, born February 12th 1939, musician, organist.

Interviewer: Name, occupation?

Jim Morrison: Uh, Jim.

[smiles]

Ray Manzarek: I feel the universe functioning perfectly but I'm still perfectly locked inside myself.