Top 214 Quotes & Sayings by Jimi Hendrix
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
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.
I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.
It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.
You have to give people something to dream on.
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's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.
Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.
Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.
When I die, just keep playing the records.
Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
We have time, there's no big rush.
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
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.
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.
Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.
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.
Music is a safe kind of high.
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.
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.
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
My nature just changes.
I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
I try to use my music to move these people to act.
Music is my religion.
When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.
All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
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?
If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
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.
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.
May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.
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.
Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things.
Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.
Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.
Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.
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.
Knowledge is speaking, wisdom is listening
Music is Magic. Magic is Life
Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.
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