Morrison Quotes

I think if Jimi had had the right person, she would have said: `Let`s go to Hawaii and get rid of Jimi for a week. You need to crystallize your existence and achieve that clarity of vision. This is the word that separates human beings from gods: willingness. Most people don`t have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims. And, like Jim Morrison or Jimi Hendrix or Marvin Gaye, they die as victims. But John Coltrane didn`t die as a victim.

"My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that`s helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison`s "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don`t particularly belong".

I listened to a lot of records. I smoked quite a few cigarettes and that - the smoking - stayed with me unfortunately! And I copied his voice in much the same way as I would learn an accent. With a lot of work, I got it. I found Jim`s voice. Whenever people see me singing, it`s really me singing. It`s live. Oliver (Oliver Stone) was counting a lot on the spontaneity and the authenticity, especially in the concert scenes. Everything was prerecorded just in case but I ended up performing it all live. It is all a thing of imagination and one can have the tendency to underestimate it. Physically, I enjoyed myself a lot when I had to gain weight to incarnate Jim Morrison at the end of his life. When he is in a stupor, intoxicated by alcohol and drugs, he resembles Karl Marx. The make-up artists took Polaroids and showed them to the Doors guitarist and to Alain Ronay to get their approval. They were amazed by the resemblance and that helped me a lot. - On becoming Jim Morrison for The Doors (1991).

Being called Jim made it easier for Oliver (Oliver Stone) and probably for me. In the end that approach was healthy because I don`t believe you`ve got to go out and shoot dope to play Jim Morrison. - On if the rumors were true about Kilmer insisting being called Jim Morrison while filming The Doors (1991).

I feel like I should have more of a Morrison-type of thing on,

Jim Morrison`s very good looking, but I don`t like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better.

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.

There`s a lot of pressure, from everyone, ... Pressure from the guys, the manager, the (Morrison) estate.

There`s a lot of pressure, from everyone. Pressure from the guys, the manager, the (Morrison) estate.

To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison`s lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.

(9. The Doors.) They had the complete package: musicianship, lyrics, songs and stage presence, ... But more importantly, their music has far transcended the band (even with the cult-psycho-martyr status of Jim Morrison) and stands the test of time. No one was doing, or will ever do, what The Doors did. They were the original alternative band, and that makes them the greatest American band.

Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can`t make a decent human being out of you.

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison`s early books a lot. But she`s really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

Walter Morrison was the soul of honor.

(When his illness inspired him to sort through his possessions, to prepare for a fate he was hoping to fight off, Chironna found a photo of himself and Morrison that Weis had signed.) Thank you for your guidance, advice, teaching and friendship, ... Thank you for helping me to build character and become a better person. Without you, I would never have attained my goals. Hopefully, one day, I will be able to better show my gratitude.