Jimi Hendrix Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.”
-- Jimi HendrixSource : "Crosstown Traffic". Book by Charles Shaar Murray, 1989.
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“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.”
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“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”
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“You have to give people something to dream on.”
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“All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.”
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“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.”
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“I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.”
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“Excuse me while I kiss the sky.”
-- Jimi HendrixSource : Song: Purple Haze
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“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 HendrixSource : Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting at Zero”, p.11, Heyne Verlag
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“You've got to know what goes between the notes.”
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“The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.”
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“In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.”
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“Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.”
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“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.”
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“Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.”
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“I try to use my music to move these people to act.”
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“When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.”
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“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.”
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“It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.”
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“The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one.”
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“Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.”
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“If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.”
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“Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand”
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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
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“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”
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“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.”
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“.. I get more of a dreamy thing from the audience - it's more of a thing that you go up into. You get into such a pitch sometimes that you go up into another thing. You don't forget about the audience, but you forget about all the paranoia, that thing where you're saying, 'Oh gosh, I'm on stage - what am I going to do now ?' - Then you go into this other thing, and it turns out to be like almost like a play in certain ways”
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“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.”
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