71 Jimi Hendrix Quotes

Jimi Hendrix quotes

1. Purple haze, all in my brain Lately things just don't seem the same, Acting funny, but I don't know why, 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

2. You got me blowin, blowin my mind, Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

3. We'll hold hands and then we'll watch the sunrise From the bottom of the sea But first, are you experienced? Uh-have you ever been experienced? Well, I have

4. Have you ever been experienced? Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.

5. White collar conservative flashin' down the street, Pointing that plastic finger at me, Hoping soon my kind will drop and die, But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

6. Castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually

7. I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

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8. I used to live in a room full of mirrors, All I could see was me. Then I take my spirit and I smash my mirrors, And now the whole world is here for me to see, Now I'm searching for my love to be.

9. I'm a Voodoo Child, Voodoo Child, Lord knows I am a Voodoo Child

10. I got a bad, bad feeling my baby don't live here no more... But thats alright i still got my guitar.

11. Hello my friend So happy to see you again I'm so alone Been all by myself Just couldn't make it I said get out of your grave Everybody's dancing in the street Do what you know, don't be slow You gotta practice what you preach Cause it's time for you and me Time to face reality Forget about the past Baby Things ain't what they used to be Keep on Straight Ahead We gotta stand side by side We got to stand together and organize They say power to the people That's what they're screamin' Freedom of the soul Pass it on to young and old You got to tell the children the truth They don't need a whole lot of lies Cause one of these days Baby They'll be running things So when you give them love You better give it right Woman - Child - Man and Wife The best love to have is the Love of Life Hello my friend So good to see you again Been all by myself I don't think I can make it alone Keep Pushing Ahead

12. [When asked if music has a meaning]Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts.

13. We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... Cause there are so many sleeping people.

14. I don't really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me. I know a whole lot of musicians, artists out there who hears the compliments and thinks 'wow, I must have been really great' and so they get fat and satisfied and they get lost and forget about their actual talent and start living in another world.

15. Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway...

16. Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

17. I try to use my music to move these people to act.

18. I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

19. If I seem free, it's because I'm always running.

20. Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

21. It's funny how most people love the dead. Once you're dead, you're made for life.

22. Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

23. Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.

24. Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

25. Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about man.

26. Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

27. The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

28. The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

29. When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

30. When I die, just keep playing the records.

31. When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

32. With the power of soul anything is possible.

33. You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

34. Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out.

35. When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

36. You have to give people something to dream on.

37. 'Music is my religion.'

38. 'When you die you're just getting rid of that old body.'

39. 'You can leave if you want, we're just jammin' that's all.'

40. 'We call it 'Electric Church Music' because to us music is a religion.'

41. 'Technically, I am not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.'

42. 'When I was a little boy, I believed that if you put a tooth under your pillow, a fairy would come in the night and take away the tooth and leave a dime. Now, I believed in myself more than anything. And, I suppose in a way, that's also believing in God. If there is a God and He made you, then if you believe in yourself, you're also believing in Him. So I think everybody should believe in himself. That doesn't mean you've got to believe in heaven and hell and all that stuff. But it does mean that what you are and what you do is your religion. I can't express myself in easy conversation-the words just don't come out right. But when I get up on stage-well, that's my whole life. That's my religion. My music is electric church music, if by 'church' you mean 'religion', I am electric religion.'

43. 'I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.'

44. 'You can clap along if you want to, and if you don't, well, then fuck it.'

45. [Introducing a raw version version of The Queen live in England] 'In fact it'd sound better if you'd stand up, for your country, and your brother ... and start singin'! And if you don't, fuck it.'

46. 'We're not trying to take away the greatness that America is supposed to have, but we're playing it [ Star-Spangled Banner ] the way the air is in America today... The air is slightly static, isn't it?'

47. 'Well, I might be living in the wrong time but I don't go by comparisons. I go by the truthfulness of the whole thing. Forget about comparing, it's the biggest mistake trying to put your ego against the other person's.'

48. Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.

49. 'Music is Magic. Magic is Life' (part of the lyrics to an unfinished song - found written on a piece of paper after his death)

50. I'd like to do a song dedicated to maybe a soldier in the army singing about this old lady he dreams about, and hold that machine gun instead, or it could be a cat, maybe... Tryna fall in love with a girl, maybe but - a little bit too scared! That's the problem sometimes, isn't it? I mean they can't really interfere a little bit so they call girls groupies, and they call girls this, and they call passive people hippies, and blah blah woof woof, all down the line. Thats because they're talking nothing love man, that's what's happening. (Woodstock 69, before playing song 'Izabella')

51. I don't give a fuck if you boo, as long as you boo in key...

1. Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.

2. You've got to know what goes between the notes.

3. Well, obviously religion must come from inside.

4. If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you.

5. We take our last look at the killing noise.

6. I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

7. So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.

8. We have time, there's no big rush.

9. Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.

10. I dig Strauss and Wagner. Those cats are good.

11. All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

12. This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise.

13. I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.

14. As you well know, you just can't believe everything you see and hear, can you?

15. My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

16. It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.

17. You're just like crosstown traffic, so hard to get through to you.

18. Music is a safe kind of high.

19. Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.

20. Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.