Jim Morrison Quotes

I like to do something that gets a real reaction from people.

I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it.

The most important thing is to illicit some reaction, good or bad. If some people are repellent to me, so be it. If some people are attracted to me, great. At the end, that's the object of entertainment - you want to provoke a reaction.

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

There's so much to argue about. That was the goal with 'Really Really.' Somebody asked me once, 'How should I feel when I leave?' and I said, 'Hopefully, you're talkative.' I don't really care if you're happy or sad or loved it or hated it or hate me. The goal is that you have something to say, that you have a response.

I want to be embraced by the audience, but it's fun to stir up the pot.

I think it's cool to provoke something in people.

I do say things in a way that is going to elicit a response from people.

Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.

I like to challenge the audience. I want people to feel discomfort.

I think it's just entertainment for people that are interested in the form. To sing along to and be psyched by.

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

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.

I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.

The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.

You want people to think. You want people to be emotionally moved. And there's a theory behind that in terms of storytelling. It has been around for thousands of years. And that's where something like live theater or a live performance is something that is very valuable because you get instant feedback from your audience and you kind of know the things that work and the things that don't work.

Yet ["One More Try" ] really seemed to connect with people, which is a wonderful thing and a marvelous coincidence.

If people spend two hours thinking about the direction of their own lives and can relate to the stories they see on screen, to me that's a success.

Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.