Jimi Hendrix Quotes

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

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

Don't raise me up, I am but a messenger.

Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening

Manic depression is a frustratin' mess.

Music is my religion.

So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.

Sometimes you'll want to give up the guitar. You'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

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

My nature just changes.

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.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow.

Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind.

May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.

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

Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.

If I had anything to say I'd have a say to everybody.

Once you're dead, you're made for life.

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

Fall mountains, just don't fall on me.

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.

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.

If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.

Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.

Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over.

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.

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.

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.

Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?

Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye

I try to get up every day.

I try all night to play a pretty note.

You know you are a sweet little heart breaker, foxy lady.

I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time.

Is this love, baby, or is this just confusion?

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

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

The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one.

When the power of love takes over the love of power that's when things will change

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

Genealogists live in the past lane.

Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.

You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else.

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

I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.

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

I found myself in too much of a box situation.

He sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea ...

Peace, Love, and Happiness.
--- Jimi Hendrix ---

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.

If my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will.

It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.

I'm up here in this womb, I'm looking all around. We'll, I'm looking out my belly button window and I see a whole lot of frowns.

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.

Never write a letter while you are angry.

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

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

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

Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out.

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

This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise.

Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.

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

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

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

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

My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.

If 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind.

Evil man make me kill you.

When I die, just keep playing the records.

This is your life - you must die by yourself, so for heaven's sake, live for yourself and no one else ...

And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually..

I wanted to be listened to. I don't know if they were or not, though.

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

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

We take our last look at the killing noise.

You know I'll kiss you for my supper. Yeah, you know I'll kiss you for my dinner, baby.

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

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.

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

A girl asked me if she could comb my hair. Nobody can comb my hair, I can't even comb my hair.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

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

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

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

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

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?

You have to give people something to dream on.

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

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

Music is Magic. Magic is Life

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

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

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

I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up.

The truth is straight ahead, so don't burn yourself instead.

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