Jimi Hendrix Quotes

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

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

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

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

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix

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

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. - Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something. - Jimi Hendrix

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

We have time, there's no big rush. - Jimi Hendrix

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

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

Excuse me while I kiss the sky. - Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man. - Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan. - Jimi Hendrix

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

See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues. - Jimi Hendrix

Music is a safe kind of high. - Jimi Hendrix

Music is my religion. - Jimi Hendrix

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music. - Jimi Hendrix

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

My nature just changes. - Jimi Hendrix

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