Jimi Hendrix Quotes

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

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

I think it would count more, if we did less personal appearances.

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

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

Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

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.

You may almost forget the smell of your family.

A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.

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've got to know much more than the mere technicalities of notes. You've got to know sounds and what goes between the notes.

In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.

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

You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That's how it can bend.

Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things.

I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy

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.

If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind. If all the hippies cut off their hair, I don't care, I don't care. Did, 'cos I got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you.

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

Anyway, you know good and well it would be beyond the will of God, and the grace of the King

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

Well, obviously religion must come from inside.

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

.. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players

Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.

I'll always touch you.

Have you ever been experienced? Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

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

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

It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

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

It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going... they'll appreciate the music.

Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.

As you well know, you just can't believe everything you see and hear, can you?

The night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red.

Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?

I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.

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

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

Hey motor cycle mama, you gonna marry me?

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.

Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan didn’t always do it for me as a singer, not in the early days, but then I started listening to the lyrics. That sold me.

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

In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.

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

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