26 Jimi Hendrix Quotes on Music

Jimi Hendrix quotes on music

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

37. 'Music is my religion.'

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.'

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?'

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...