Jimi Hendrix Quotes

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

Knowledge is speaking, wisdom is listening

Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things.

Let me live my life the way I want to.

You've got to know much more than the mere technicalities of notes. You've got to know sounds and what goes between the notes.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love

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

The world is nothing but a big gimmick.

With the power of soul, anything is possible.

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

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

May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow.

Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.

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.

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.

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

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

You're just like crosstown traffic, so hard to get through to you.

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.

Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand

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

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

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

I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.

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.

Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn't full of danger

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

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

Well, obviously religion must come from inside.

Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.

Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway.

I'll always touch you.

Evil man make me kill you.

Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

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

Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye

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.

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

You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That's how it can bend.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

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

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