Jimi Hendrix famous quotes

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Play #Easy #Feels

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

#Inspirational #Life #Music

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

#Music #Fake People #Peace

You have to give people something to dream on.
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Dream #People #Giving

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

#Hippie #Goes On #Proud Of Yourself

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.
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Guitar #Wish #Cotton

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

#Music #Mistake #Guitar

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Song #Kissing #Sky

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

#Clever #Reality #Mirrors

You've got to know what goes between the notes.
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Notes

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

#Love #Music #Sacrifice

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

#Inspirational #Change #Order

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

#Cities #World #Gang

We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... 'Cause there are so many sleeping people.
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Sleep #People #Soul

Music is a safe kind of high.
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Music #Safe #Kind

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

#Music Is #Hereafter

I try to use my music to move these people to act.
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Music #Moving #People

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

#Men #Heavy #Helium

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

#Trying #Enjoy #Stills

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.
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Kids #Black And White #Thinking

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

#Guitar #Two #Sound

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.
-- Jimi Hendrix

If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Fear #Illusion #Excuse

Good and evil lay side by side.
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Philosophy #Evil #Sides

Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Hands #Mountain #Next

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Love #Inspirational #Life

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
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Music #Water #Together

Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Music #Safe #Way

.. 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
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Music #Play #Way

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

#Music #Art #Goal

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

#Inspirational #Music #Fun

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

#Music #Play #People

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

#Crazy #Heaven #Goes On

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

#Fall #Sea #Castles

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

#Goodbye #Farewell #Eye

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Life #Music #Beautiful

When I die, just keep playing the records.
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Records

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

#Music #Keys #Imagination

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

#Music #Kids #Naked

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

#Running #Hippie #Romance

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

#Love #Order #People

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

#Love #Funny #Death

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

#Music #Player #Guitar

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

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

The story of love is hello and goodbye... until we meet again....
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Goodbye #Love You #Love Is

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

#Hate #Moving #Player

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

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

#Together #Sound

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

#Music #Reflection #World

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

#Writing #Naked #Bland

Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway...
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Sorry #Cowboy #Tunes

If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Establishment

Evil man make me kill you.
-- Jimi Hendrix

#Men #Evil