"Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism."

-- Perry Farrell

#Hendrix Quotes #Escapism Quotes

“I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.”
“Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.”
“All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I entrusted myself, in what dolorous and ravishing world has my imagination enclosed me? I am sure of having been loved in the most mysterious of domains, my own. The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. My amorous imagination has always been constant and high enough so that nothing could attempt to convince me of error.”

Source : Paul Eluard, “At The Window”
“Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.”
“Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'”
“The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components.”
“I didn't want to feel such love for someone else. I still wanted to be the object of that tidal wave.”
“You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.”

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