Jimi Hendrix Quotes

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





2. Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

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

4. All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.


5. Music is my religion

6. I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

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

8. Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. 

9. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

10. I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

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

12. Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.



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

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

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

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

17. Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

18. Music is a safe kind of high.

19. I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.


20. In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.


21. I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

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

23. To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?



24. It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

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

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.


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

30. I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

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

32. It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.

33. Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.

34. If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.

35. White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

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





37. My nature just changes.

38. Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

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

40. You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

41. I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

42. 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.





43. When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.

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


45. See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.


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

47. The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

48. When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.



49. Not necessarily stoned..but beautiful.

50. Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space.

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





52. I try to get up every day.

53. 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. (when asked if music has a meaning)

54. 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.




55. 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.

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