Jimi Hendrix Quotes

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.

There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.

If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.

I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.

With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that.

Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye

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.

I found myself in too much of a box situation.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

A lot of ppl are making more money than they ever had nowadays - so when they get their flat they can, they always find themselves with an extra room.

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

There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber.

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.

Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.

Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.

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

There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.

Fall mountains, just don't fall on me.

Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you'll never hear surf music again.

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

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

The one that rambles for a million miles, yes, I walk down this road searching for your love.

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.

I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good...

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

Music is Magic. Magic is Life

Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine?

We take our last look at the killing noise.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

Good and evil lay side by side.

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

Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.

Oh say, can you see, it's really such a mess. Every inch of earth is a fighting nest. Giant pencial and lipstick tube shaped things, continue to rain and cause scream and pain, and the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red.

We have time, there's no big rush.

Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it.

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 believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage.

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?

They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes

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.

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

.. I get more of a dreamy thing from the audience - it's more of a thing that you go up into. You get into such a pitch sometimes that you go up into another thing. You don't forget about the audience, but you forget about all the paranoia, that thing where you're saying, 'Oh gosh, I'm on stage - what am I going to do now ?' - Then you go into this other thing, and it turns out to be like almost like a play in certain ways

I use to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me.

There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

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?

Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.