Morrison recalled: ".all I saw was funny red paint and people lying around, but I knew something was happening, because I could dig the vibrations of the people around me, 'cause they're my parents and all, and all of a sudden I realized that they didn't know what was happening any more than I did.
A truck packed with Indian workers had crashed, leaving dead and mutilated bodies of the victims strewn across the highway. He underwent a traumatic but formative experience around the age of five when driving with his family through the New Mexico desert. They're going to create their own unique sound.” “I was ideally suited for the work I'm doing it's the feeling of a bowstring being pulled back for 22 years and suddenly being let go.”ĭuring his early years, Morrison was a dutiful and highly intelligent child, excelling at school and taking a particular interest in reading, writing and drawing. There is no longer a belief.” “I think that for any generation to assert itself as an aware human entity, it has to break with the past, so obviously the kids that are coming along next are not going to have much in common with what we feel. It became self-conscious, involuted and kind of incestuous. Then it became self-conscious, which I think is the death of any moment. And then there was a rock revival sparked by the English. So when it finally happened, my subconscious had prepared the whole thing.” “The thing they call rock, what used to be called rock and roll-it got decadent. I guess all that time I was unconsciously accumulating inclination and listening.
It was a real turn-on, although at the time I could never allow myself to rationally fantasize about ever doing it myself. “Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.” “.the birth of rock and roll coincided with my adolescence, my coming into awareness.