Jimi Hendrix Quotes

Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.

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

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

I taste the honey from a flower named Blue
Way down in California
And New York drowns as we held hands

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

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

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.

The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.

You got me floatin' across and through
You make me float right on up to you
The only thing I need to get me there
Is to hear you laugh without a care

Manic depression is a frustratin' mess.

A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.

Those times i burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. we all burn things we love. i love my guitar

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

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

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

Good and evil lay side by side.

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

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?

She's a devil in disguise, I can tell by looking in her eyes, little Miss Strange.

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.

The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend.

Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space

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.

We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking.

Jesus shouldn't have died so early and then he could have got twice as much across. They killed him and then twisted so many of the best things he said. Human hands started messing it all up and now so much of religion is hogwash.

With Voodoo Child somebody was filming when we started doing that. We did that about three times because they wanted to film us in the studio, to make us (imitates a pompous voice) 'make it look like you're recording boys' - one of them scenes, you know, so okey, let's play this and then we went into Voodoo Child

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.

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

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 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.

Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening

I try to get up every day.

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

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

I found myself in too much of a box situation.

I'm a million miles away, and at the same time I'm right here in your picture frame.

Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.

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.

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

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.

I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is achin', my back is breakin', feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover.

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

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.

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.

You have to give people something to dream on.

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

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

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

You got your God and so do I.

Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye

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

There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber.

Music is Magic. Magic is Life

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

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

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?

I love Dylan. I only met him once, about three years ago, back at the Kettle of Fish on MacDougal Street. That was before I went to England. I think both of us were pretty drunk at the time, so he probably doesn't remember it.

Evil man make me kill you.

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.

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.

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

Gimmicks? Here we go again. I'm tired of people sayin' we rely on gimmicks. What is this? The world is nothin' but a big gimmick isn't it? Wars, napalm bombs and all that. People being burned-up on TV ... Yes, we do.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

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

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

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

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

Music is a safe kind of high.

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

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

So down and down and down and down
And down and down we go
Hurry my darling we mustn't be late
For the show
Neptune champion games to an aqua
World so very dear
Right this way smiles a mermaid
I can hear Atlantis full of cheer.

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

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

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.

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

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

Music is my religion.

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

You're a woman, at least you taste like you are.

When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.

I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.

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

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