Jimi Hendrix Quotes

• "Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel."
• "Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually."
• "Excuse me while I kiss the sky."
• "I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan."
• "I try to use my music to move these people to act."
• "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."
• "I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked."
• "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."
• "I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes."
• "If I'm free, it's because I'm always running."
• "Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction."
• "In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first."
• "It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life."
• "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
• "Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music."
• "Music is a safe kind of high."
• "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."
• "Music is my religion."
• "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."
• "Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music."
• "My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art."
• "Once you're dead you're made for life."
• "Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows."
• "Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded."
• "The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye."
• "The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar."
• "When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."
• "When I die, just keep playing the records."
• "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
• "When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man."
• "White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high."
• "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."
• "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
• "When the power of love conquers the love of power then the world will know peace."
• "Music makes me high on stage and that's the truth, it's like almost being addicted to music."
• "Even castles made from sand fall to the ocean"
• "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."
• "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."
• "Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music."
• "Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded."