Jimi Hendrix Quotes

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Jimi Hendrix Quotes

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

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.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

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

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

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

I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be. 

Jimi Hendrix Quotes

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

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 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.

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

I'll always touch you.

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

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.

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

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

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

Jimi Hendrix Quotes

It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.

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

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Life is quicker than a blink of an eye.

Make sure your hands are clean.

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

Music is a safe kind of high.

Music is my religion.

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

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

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again

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

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

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

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

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.

Who are you to judge the life I live?

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.

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

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

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