Quotes & Sayings About 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

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

You have everything you need today to do what God has for you to do today. — Shelley Hendrix

Where are you supposed to stay?" He ground out ...
"Hendrix, are you kidding me?"
"By me, Reagan. Always, by me," he answered, ignoring my sarcasm. — Rachel Higginson

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

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

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

I taste the honey from a flower named Blue
Way down in California
And New York drowns as we held hands — Jimi Hendrix

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

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix. — Eddie Money

I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man. I'm doing a very bad imitation on the bass of Jerry Jemmott, Bernard Odum, Jimmy Fielder, Jimmy Blanton, Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, James Brown, Charlie Parker ... the cats, man. I'm just backing up the cats. — Jaco Pastorius

Kurt (Cobain) was a fan of my standup, which was pretty weird. I know when people hear that, it's kind of like finding out that Jimi Hendrix really liked Buddy Hackett, but he interviewed me at a college radio station before they broke and did Bleach. And then, like, about two years later, I was opening for Nirvana at these huge sports arenas. — Bobcat Goldthwait

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

I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing. — Dweezil Zappa

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

The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant. — Roy Wood

But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place. — Terry Kath

There are many excellent guitar players but I have to say Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton are still at the top! There are many imitators but very few genuine articles. There is so much more to playing than a fast blur of notes, like feeling and emotion from the soul. It's like punctuating a sentence and knowing when to lay back and not fill up all the space. Those are the things I tried to teach my son Tim when he began playing. — Merrell Fankhauser

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

Stop saying drug use makes people lazy. Jimi Hendrix did a lot of drugs, even though he's been dead for forty years, he's still making new records. Suck on that, Partnership for a Drug-Free America! — Bill Maher

And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time. — Gerald Scarfe

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

Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding. — Jimmy Carl Black

About Jimi Hendrix - although his playing is at an uber-level, his voice is quite lo-fi and normal, like a regular person singing in the shower, and this makes his music much better than if he was just a technical player and singer. — Jeffrey Lewis

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

So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd. — DJ Spooky

You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that. — Jon Bon Jovi

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

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

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

With the power of soul, anything is possible. — Jimi Hendrix

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

Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union. — Harville Hendrix

When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to. — Chrissie Hynde

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

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

Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically. — Frank Zappa

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and ... those are my bands. — Marisa Miller

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

There are no Jerry Garcias coming down the pike, anymore than there is a Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley. They are all at the same level - the highest level that you strive to get to as a musician. Me and my friends - we'll all be long dead, people will still be trying to dig into what Jerry Garcia did. — Trey Anastasio

As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix. — Matt Schulze

The Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players — Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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

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

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

Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb. — Jimi Hendrix

Holy hell, Hendrix was going to get eaten by my crotch that had evolved into a man-eating gorilla sometime over the last two years! — Rachel Higginson

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

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

We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood. — Harville Hendrix

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

The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me. — Dhani Harrison

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

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

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

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

Genealogists live in the past lane. — Jimi Hendrix

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

I remember writing a song when I was about 15. This is the one I can remember. I know I'd been writing poetry for a long time, since I was about eight, but I remember my first one that I put to chords. I was really trying to be like the psychedelic era Beatles, I was obsessed. All I could think about was Beatles and Hendrix. So I tried to write a psychedelic song, and it was the worst. I couldn't even ... If I read it now - I still have the book somewhere - it makes me cringe out loud. It was just about psychedelic stuff. — Ladyhawke

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

Of course, all of the coolest icons overdosed and died years ago, which is just as well. How depressing would it be to see a gray-haired Jimi Hendrix wearing a cardigan sweater and reminiscing about the soundtrack of the Summer of Love? — Wally Lamb

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing. — Joe Satriani

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me! — David Gilmour

When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood. — Hedi Slimane

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

I am the flying saucer man from another world trapped on yours until they come to rescue me. One day the saucer will land. Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane will open the hatch and tell me to get in before someone tries to blow up the ship. I'll just ask what took them so long. Within seconds we'll be out of here. — Henry Rollins

You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I'm obsessed with being different. — ASAP Rocky

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

I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory. I want to be rich and famous and kill myself like Jimi Hendrix. — Kurt Cobain

The depth of our love can be measured by our efforts. We demonstrate our love when we take that extra step ... — Harville Hendrix

We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot. — Noel Redding

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

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

Live with your eyes wide open. — Sheila Hendrix

I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time ... — Joe Satriani

Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down and backwards. He developed my slides and my riffs. In fact he used to say, and this is documented, 'I patterned my style after Dick Dale.' — Dick Dale

If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you. — 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

If the mountains fell in the sea,
Let it be, it ain't me.
Got my own world to live through
And I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9,
I don't mind, I don't mind.
If all the hippies cut off their hair,
I don't care, I don't care.
Did, 'cos I got my own world to live through
And I ain't gonna copy you. — 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

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

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

When the power of love overpowers the love of power, the world will know peace. — Jimi Hendrix

You don't remember?" Hendrix asked with narrowed eyes. "Then we'll talk about it later. I'll help you remember." His voice was smooth sex appeal as it washed over my body and I shivered involuntarily. — Rachel Higginson

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

Online dating," he mumbled dryly.
"Oh, like before? That makes sense then. It's actually kind of sweet you still have each other through all this craziness." It was like an ah-ha moment. They were gay.
"I was kidding," his eyes snapped up to mine again and flashed with annoyance.
"I'm not judging you," I quickly said. "I think it's great. Seriously!"
"We're not gay," he growled. "We're brothers. — Rachel Higginson

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

Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over. — Jimi Hendrix

There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber. — 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

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

You're not the only one accused of hit and run. Tire tracks all across my back, well I can see you've had your fun. — 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

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace. — Jimi Hendrix

There are enough people running around in here. It's starting to feel like an episode of Scooby-Doo. — Grady Hendrix

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