Jimi Hendrix Quotes

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

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

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

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

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

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

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.

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

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

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

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.

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

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

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

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

May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.

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

White collar conservative flashin' down the street, Pointing that plastic finger at me, Hoping soon my kind will drop and die, But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

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

I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter. You've got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you've got to know what goes between the notes.

Music is a safe kind of high.

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

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

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

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Music is Magic. Magic is Life

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

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.

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

You have to give people something to dream on.

I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table.

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.

Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You got me blowin', blowin' my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up.

The sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea.

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

Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

When I'm sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles.

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.

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

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

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

My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don't get them together nobody else will.

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

Now if I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late, don't be late, cause I'm a voodoo chile.

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

The story of love is hello and goodbye... until we meet again.

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