Jimi Hendrix Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

Happiness is within you ... so unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow- like the sweet flower you are. I know the answer- just spread your wings and set yourself free. — Jimi Hendrix

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

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. — Jimi Hendrix

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

Don't let your imagination take you by surprise. — Jimi Hendrix

Once you're dead, you're made for life. — Jimi Hendrix

If 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind. — Jimi Hendrix

If I had anything to say I'd have a say to everybody. — Jimi Hendrix

When I die, just keep playing the records. — 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

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

I think everybody should believe in himself. I suppose, in a way, that's also believing in God. If there is a God and He made you, then believing in yourself is also believing in Him. Once you carry God inside yourself, then you're part of Him. — 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 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

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

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

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

Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man. — Jimi Hendrix

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. — Jimi Hendrix

People still mourn when people die. That's self-sympathy. All human beings are selfish to a certain extent, and that's why people get so sad when someone dies. They haven't finished using him. The person who is dead ain't crying. Sadness is for when a baby is born into this heavy world, and joy should be exhibited at someone's death because they are going on to something more permanent and infinitely better. — Jimi Hendrix

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

Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for. — Jimi Hendrix

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

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

I try to get up every day. — Jimi Hendrix

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. — 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

Well I walk right on up to your rebel roadside
The one that rambles on for a million miles
Yes I walk down this road searchin' for your love
And my soul too
When I find ya I ain't gonna let go. — Jimi Hendrix

I dig Strauss and Wagner. Those cats are good. — Jimi Hendrix

Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean. — Jimi Hendrix

Good and evil lay side by side. — Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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

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

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 — Jimi Hendrix

Music is Magic. Magic is Life — Jimi Hendrix

Music is a safe kind of high. — Jimi Hendrix

I'll always touch you. — Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine? — Jimi Hendrix

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together. — Jimi Hendrix

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

The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool. — Jimi Hendrix

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

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

You have to give people something to dream on. — Jimi Hendrix

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

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

When the power of love takes over the love of power that's when things will change — Jimi Hendrix

I didn't know it was anger until they told me that it was, like with destruction and all that. But I believe everybody should have like a room where they can get rid of all their releases, where they can do their releases at. So my room is a stage. — Jimi Hendrix

We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds ... 'Cause there are so many sleeping people. — Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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

I try all night to play a pretty note. — Jimi Hendrix

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

The one that rambles for a million miles, yes, I walk down this road searching for your love. — Jimi Hendrix

I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore. — Jimi Hendrix

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

Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts. — 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 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 didn't mean to take up all your sweet time ... I'll give it right back to you, one of these days — Jimi Hendrix

Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last. — Jimi Hendrix

So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind. — Jimi Hendrix

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

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

Genealogists live in the past lane. — Jimi Hendrix

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. — Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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

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 — Jimi Hendrix

Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening — Jimi Hendrix

Let me live my life the way I want to. — Jimi Hendrix

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. — Jimi Hendrix

A girl asked me if she could comb my hair. Nobody can comb my hair, I can't even comb my hair. — Jimi Hendrix

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. — Jimi Hendrix

And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.. — Jimi Hendrix

Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye — Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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. — Jimi Hendrix

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. — 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 think it would count more, if we did less personal appearances. — Jimi Hendrix

Freaks, they are very prejudiced. You have to have your hair long and talk in a certain way in order to be with them. In order to be the other way you have to have your hair short and wear ties. — Jimi Hendrix

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