Jimi Hendrix Quotes


"I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Kids, Will)

"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."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Time, Life, Want)

"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: People, Mistakes)

"If I'm free, it's because I'm always running."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Running)

"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."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Nature, Time, Trying)

"Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Imagination, Science, Fiction, Key, Rest)

"I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Pet)

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Love, Peace, Power, Will, World)

"If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment."
- Jimi Hendrix
"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."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Now, Spirit, World)

"I try to use my music to move these people to act."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Music, People, Act)

"I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Man, Saying)

"I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Hurt, Nothing, Past, Regret)

"Excuse me while I kiss the sky."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Kiss, Sky)

"Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Outcasts, World)

"Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Sea)

"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Play)

"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."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Words, Writing)

"All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel."
- Jimi Hendrix
"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."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Guitar, Hate)

"Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Guitar, Hate, Want)

"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."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Eyes, Forget, Play)

"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."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: God, Queen)

"When I die, just keep playing the records."
- Jimi Hendrix
"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Music, People, Play, Want)

"We have time, there's no big rush."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Time)

"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?"
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Hair, Trying, World)

"The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Love, Time, Sacrifice, Guitar)

"In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Change, First, Order, World)

"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."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Music, Reflection, World)

"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."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Conservative, Will)

"See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Nothing, Singing, Today)

"Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Fun)

"My nature just changes."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Nature)

"My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Art, Life, Music, Goal)

"Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Music, Truth, Being)

"Music is my religion."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Music, Religion)

"Music is a safe kind of high."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Music)

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Music, Lie, World)

"The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Life, Love, Eye, Goodbye)

"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."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Love, Time, People, Order, Singing, Words)

"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."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: People, Forget)

"It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Funny, Life, Love, People)

"You have to give people something to dream on."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: People, Dream)

"You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Heaven)

"It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Funny, Life, Love, People)

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Wisdom, Knowledge)

"It all has to come from inside, though, I guess."
- Jimi Hendrix
"When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Man)