Hendrix Quotes

When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs for my birthday: Pink Floyd's Dark side of the Moon, the Sex Pistols, Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix, and I can't remember the fifth one, but really different kinds of music. That's when I started to grasp it and enjoy it, listening to it. Then I started being in bands at school. ~ Eliot Paulina Sumner

I thought Jimi Hendrix ... was just phenomenal. ~ Carl Wilson

I'm in a hallowed league of artists. Whether it's Billie Holiday or Rakim or Jimmy Hendrix or ... I don't know, MGMT, we're all blessed to be able to create. It's a lineage that extends a long time. And to be able to be active in it and have made a difference in it, it's humbling. To know I had a place in all of this; that's the rewarding part. ~ Q-Tip

Think of us what you will," she thought, "we made mistakes, and probably scarred our children for life, and we froze sandwiches, and forgot car pool, and got divorced. But when the time came, we went the distance. ~ Grady Hendrix

Well, obviously religion must come from inside. ~ Jimi Hendrix

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. ~ Jimi Hendrix

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

Something I learned from the Serbian tribes. Churches are built where saints were martyred. A bridge requires a child in its foundations if it is to hold. All great works must begin with a sacrifice. ~ Grady Hendrix

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

Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen. ~ Jimi Hendrix

I will be dead in five years' time, but while I am here, I will travel many highways and I will, of necessity, die at a time when my message of love, peace, and freedom can be shared with people all over the world. ~ Jimi Hendrix

Hard rock, heavy metal, stoner rock, doom metal-it all dragged itself up out of the swamp called the blues. ~ Grady Hendrix

I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past. ~ Jimi Hendrix

We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking. ~ Jimi Hendrix

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along. ~ Nigel Kennedy

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

There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin? ~ Lars Von Trier

You got your God and so do I. ~ Jimi Hendrix

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? ~ Jimi Hendrix

Through Jimi Hendrix's music you can almost see the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and of Martin Luther King Junior, the beginnings of the Berlin Wall, Yuri Gagarin in space, Fidel Castro and Cuba, the debut of Spiderman, Martin Luther King Junior's 'I Have a Dream' speech, Ford Mustang cars, anti-Vietnam protests, Mary Quant designing the mini-skirt, Indira Gandhi becoming the Prime Minister of India, four black students sitting down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro North Carolina, President Johnson pushing the Civil Rights Act, flower children growing their hair long and practicing free love, USA-funded IRA blowing up innocent civilians on the streets and in the pubs of Great Britain, Napalm bombs being dropped on the lush and carpeted fields of Vietnam, a youth-driven cultural revolution in Swinging London, police using tear gas and billy-clubs to break up protests in Chicago, Mods and Rockers battling on Brighton Beach, Native Americans given the right to vote in their own country, the United Kingdom abolishing the death penalty, and the charismatic Argentinean Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. It's all in Jimi's absurd and delirious guitar riffs. ~ Karl Wiggins

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

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. ~ John Mayer

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. ~ Jimi Hendrix

When we meet an Imago match, that chemical reaction occurs, and love ignites. All other bets, all other ideas about what we want in a mate, are off. We feel alive and whole, confident that we have met the person who will make everything all right. ~ Harville Hendrix

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

I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair. ~ Jimi Hendrix

Being a teenager isn't a number, " Maryellen said. "It's the age when you stop liking them. ~ Grady Hendrix

Julieanne Smolinksi has a history in rock journalism and she's a huge rock 'n' roll fan, and she was a huge fan of Ava (Elaine Hendrix) and Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies) and of the actresses. I was really lucky to get her, in between seasons on Grace and Frankie. ~ Denis Leary

You have to be a freak in order to be different. ~ Jimi Hendrix

The only way your going to be what you say your going to be, is if you do what your going to do. ~ Sumadi Hendrix

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

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist. ~ Little Richard

Up here everything felt epic, felt mythic, felt like magic, and lyrics that had been written in the basement of the Witch House came out of Terry's throat like an incantation. ~ Grady Hendrix

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

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix. ~ Eddie Van Halen

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

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

I'm a rock 'n' roll baby. I was one of the last actually born into rock, in the middle of it. My mother was a promoter, so I grew up with rock stars. When I was little, people like Jimi Hendrix were walking around in the living room. ~ Ari Up

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell. ~ Noel Redding

There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets. ~ Carlos Santana

A girl with a guitar never has to apologize for anything. ~ Grady Hendrix

I'll always touch you. ~ Jimi Hendrix

My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him. ~ Meshell Ndegeocello

Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening ~ Jimi Hendrix

Your generation - you've not heard the Verve or Jimi Hendrix or Eminem, you've not read The Catcher in the Rye, you've not seen a classic film like Terminator or Blade Runner. All you've done is read dross, listen to crap and watch Disney movies with happy endings. And what kind of generation have we produced? A slow, simple, dull one who never questions anything. A stunted generation. It's devolution because in order for society to progress, you need to be able to debate ideas, to question, to see the dark and the light in things ~ Sam Mills

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. ~ Jimi Hendrix

He sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea ... ~ Jimi Hendrix

Nature does not care that you are comfortable, only that you evolve. ~ Harville Hendrix

In every book we read, no one ever thought anything bad was happening until it was too late. This is where we live, it's where our children live, it's our home. Don't you want to do absolutely everything you can to keep it safe? ~ Grady Hendrix

My husband has no more consideration for me than a dog, she said. He goes off and screws little girls with the other men and we sit home like good little women and wash their shirts and pack their bags for their sex trips. We keep their houses warm and clean for when they're ready to come home and shower off some other woman's perfume before tucking their children into bed. For years I've pretended I don't know where he goes, or who those girls are on the phone, but every time he comes home, I lie there in bed beside my husband, who doesn't touch me, who doesn't talk to me, who doesn't love me, and I pretend I can't smell some twenty-year-old's body on him ~ Grady Hendrix

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind. ~ Patti Smith

Nightwalking men always have a hunger on them [...] They never stop taking and they don't know about enough. They mortgaged their souls away and now they eat and eat and never know how to stop. ~ Grady Hendrix

If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn't be over dinner. ~ Slash

I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix. ~ Noel Redding

May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future. ~ Jimi Hendrix

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

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. ~ Jimi Hendrix

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. ~ Jimi Hendrix

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

Hendrix pulled back from me and stared down with a deeper intensity than I had ever seen from him. "Save me from this," he pleaded with a rough voice. "I can't," I sniffled. "But I can walk through it with you. ~ Rachel Higginson

I try to get up every day. ~ Jimi Hendrix

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye ... until we meet again ~ Jimi Hendrix

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

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero. ~ Carlos Santana

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. ~ Jimi Hendrix

Pain is a four letter word the weak use to get out of doing what must be done. ~ Grady Hendrix

It would be too much for me to deal with to be sitting up there next to God, Bon Scott, Sid Vicious, and Jimi Hendrix, and hear somebody read my obituary from below:
NIKKI SIXX DIED TODAY ... FUCKING GOLFING ~ Nikki Sixx

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane. ~ Frederick Lenz

I learned from Jimi Hendrix. They all wanted him to do the tricks, and at the end of his career, he just wanted to play. I lived longer than he did, and I can see how those pressures can really play with your head. ~ Prince

I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left. ~ Stevie Nicks

I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul Jones of my generation. ~ Steven Adler

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

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

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. ~ Jimi Hendrix

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

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

Hendrix was back there with a few of the others who were like my training wheels ... hearing him as a teenager taught me to look at the guitar in a different way - and how to tap into that thing inside of me that was already leaning toward improvisation. You learn other players' licks at first; then you take off the training wheels and start using the licks as building blocks to make your own thing. That's how influences work. somewhere in whatever I do, there's a little bit of Hendrix - plus about a hundred others ~ Junior Brown

I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles constantly were big influences on my life. ~ Phil Anselmo

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, because that was new music for me. I really hadn't been up on them. I mean, I'd heard of them, but I wasn't up on their music. And I kept listening to Radiohead, and I was like, Man, I want to make hip-hop that feels like Radiohead. I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. ~ Will Ferrell

Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music. ~ Janelle Monae

I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead. ~ Demetri Martin

Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix. ~ Kanye West

I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats. ~ Gustav Ejstes

Above all else, we seek connection - with parts of ourselves that we have repressed, with other people, and with the larger universe. We cannot experience life in its fullness unless we have an intimate relationship with another human being and, beyond that, a feeling of connection with the world around us. ~ Harville Hendrix

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Jimi Hendrix

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

Evil man make me kill you. ~ Jimi Hendrix

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect. ~ Ronnie Wood

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

Three's all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience. ~ Garth Risk Hallberg

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist. ~ LL Cool J

At first, Hendrix went and became a superstar in London, but if he walked past the Apollo in Harlem, no one would know who he was. I'm the hip-hop version of him. ~ Nayvadius Cash

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. ~ Jimi Hendrix

Manic depression is a frustratin' mess. ~ Jimi Hendrix

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

Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents, but for the best possible reason! Doing so brings our childhood wounds to the surface so they can be healed. ~ Harville Hendrix