Jimi 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and kicking ass!' Now it's 'What do you reckon you'll be doing at 60?' and the answer's exactly the same. I'm always going to love Jimi Hendrix - 'Purple Haze' will still give me a hard-on when I'm hooked up to a life-support machine. Hey, even when I'm dead, they're going to have a hell of a job nailing the coffin lid down. ~ Steven Tyler

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

As we headed back to Tangier we saw a shepherd guiding a camel with her calf. Rolling down the window, I called out: - What is the little one's name? - His name is Jimi Hendrix. - Hooray, I wake from yesterday! - Inshallah! he called out. ~ Patti Smith

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix. ~ Phoebe Snow

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

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

Jimi Hendrix often spoke about being a messenger. His hope was that his music might somehow pierce our hearts and heal our souls. He finally did go so far out that he couldn't find his way back in, but he did us all a huge favor - he left his music with us. ~ Des Barres, Pamela

I love Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain. I really do. It doesn't matter what style they had - whether it was pin-up or whatever - it just worked for them, and it looked effortless even though it was fabulous. I like anything that just looks effortless. ~ Behati Prinsloo

WHEN THE POWER OF LOVE IS STRONGER THAN THE LOVE OF POWER, THE WORLD WILL KNOW PEACE - JIMI HENDRIX. ~ Stephen King

In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. ~ Patti Smith

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

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

What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison. ~ Patti Smith

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. ~ Jimi Hendrix

I would love to play Jimi Hendrix. ~ Chadwick Boseman

We sat side by side on the swings. The creaking sound they made seemed sexier to me than a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo. ~ Ryu Murakami

Castles made of sand slip into the sea eventually ~ JIMI HENDRIX, MUSICIAN ~ Leo Gough

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. ~ Jimi Hendrix

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

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. ~ Jimi Hendrix

When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar. ~ B.B. King

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right. ~ Ziggy Marley

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. ~ Bryan Ferry

Translating how that latter fact came to life in the studio, engineer Chuck Zwicky explained from his own observations during the recording of the album that "the way that Prince's music comes together has everything to do with how he views the individual instruments, and for example, when he's sitting down at the drums, he's derivatively thinking about Dave Gerbaldi, the drummer from Tower of Power, and that's a real fascile and funky drummer; and when he plays keyboards, he's thinking about James Brown's horn player, on one aspect; and when he's playing guitar, other elements creep in, because he loves Carlos Santana, and Jimi Hendrix, and this other guitar player named Bill Nelson, a rock guitar player from the 70s. And so these aspects all come together to make this unique sound that is Prince, and it's not rock, it's not funk, it's not jazz, it's not blues - it's just his own kind of music. I remember there was one particular moment when he started playing this keyboard line, and I'm thinking 'He can't play that, that's Gary Newman.' And at that moment, he stops the tape, and turns and looks at me and asks 'Do you like Gary Newman?' And I said 'You know, the album Replica never left my turntable in Jr. High School after my sister bought it for me. I listened to it until it wore out.' And he said 'There are people still trying to figure out what a genius he is. ~ Jake Brown

After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.' ~ Kirk Hammett

My nature just changes. ~ 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