Jimi Hendrix Quotations

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

You have to give people something to dream on.

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

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

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

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

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...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...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...Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

When I die, just keep playing the records.

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.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

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.

Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar...............................(more lyrics)..................i might as well go back over yonder, way back across the hills, if my baby dont love me no more....i know her...sister will

He'd been listening to black music all his life,

Yes, it was raggedy. Yes, it had its problems. Yes, he did some things that he probably felt afterwards it wasn't a great idea to experiment onstage in front of a half-million people,

We started doing some stuff, just hooking up doing gigs. He got a little bit too far out from me. Stuff he was doing, I didn't want to do.

A broom is drearily sweeping, up the broken peices of yesterdays life. Somewhere a queen is weeping, Somewhere a king has no wife, And the wind cries Mary.

But I always told him, 'When you start playing music you do something original.' He sure did, and I was really proud of him for doing that.

And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

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

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

My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don't get them together nobody else will.

Let me live my life the way I want to.

The story of love is hello and goodbye... until we meet again....

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

Music is a safe kind of high.

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

You have to be a freak in order to be different.

I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up.

When I'm sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles.

Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.

I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time... I'll give it right back to you, one of these days

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.

Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..I might as well go back over yonder, way back across the hills, if my baby dont love me no more....i know her...sister will

You're a woman, at least you taste like you are.

Now if I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late, don't be late, cause I'm a voodoo chile.

Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love

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

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

I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table.

Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand

You know you are a sweet little heart breaker, foxy lady.

Jesus shouldn't have died so early and then he could have got twice as much across. They killed him and then twisted so many of the best things he said. Human hands started messing it all up and now so much of religion is hogwash.

I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is achin', my back is breakin', feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover.

Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes ... you play your gig; it's the same thing as the olden days, and these beautiful girls come around.. you do actually fall in love with them because that's the only love you can have. It's not always the physical thing of "Oh, there's one over there ...", it's not one of those scenes. They actually tell you something. They release different things inside themselves ... "Little Wing" was a very sweet girl that came around that gave me her whole life and more if I wanted it ...

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.

The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall.

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

Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You got me blowin', blowin' my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

Music is Magic. Magic is Life

One time I said: maybe I should burn a guitar tonight. You know smash a guitar or something like that. And they said: yeah, yeah! I said: you really think I should? They said: yeah, that'd be cool. I said: well, ok.

Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn't full of danger

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

Evil man make me kill you.

I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time.

Really I'm just an actor. The only difference between me and those cats in Hollywood is that I write my own script.

I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter. You've got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you've got to know what goes between the notes.

I try all night to play a pretty note.

The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend.

May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow.

Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for.

Fall mountains, just don't fall on me.

I'll always touch you.

The world is nothing but a big gimmick.

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.

After awhile, your, your cheap talk don't even cause me pain, so let your bullets fly like rain.