“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.” IfsThinkingMindRealFeelingsSeemsSongSummerClimateWarmPlenty Author:Jim Morrison
“Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.” MindChildrenYoungCrowdsGhostDawnFragileHighwaysBleedingYoung ChildrenEggshells Author:Jim Morrison
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” LifeMindMediaUprisingFreedom Of The PressMedia Control Author:Jim Morrison
“I can make the earth stop in its tracks. I made the blue cars go away. I can make myself invisible or small. I can become gigantic & reach the farthest things. I can change the course of nature. I can place myself anywhere in space or time. I can summon the dead. I can perceive events on other worlds, in my deepest inner mind, & in the minds of others. I can I am” WorldMindMadeI CanEarthCoursesSpaceCarEventsBlueTrackInvisiblePerceiveGoing AwayOther Worlds Author:Jim Morrison
“Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason. [...] Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you? All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.” MindDoeReasonWould BeEyeSidesWonderSawsPlanetsPromiseBirdShadowSeasonsCalmCirclesFlightReason WhyBe YouThumbsCalculus Author:Jim Morrison
“I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it” WayWantFeelsMindHappensAgeDiesSleepDyingMissingTasteSmellOld AgePlanesCrashGood WayWanting To DiePlane Crashes Author:Jim Morrison