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Jimi Hendrix quotes

Ocupation: Musician

Life: November 27, 1942 - September 18, 1970

Birthday: November 27

Death: September 18

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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

source: - "Crosstown Traffic". Book by Charles Shaar Murray, 1989.

Topics: Play, Easy, Feels, Singing The Blues

Quotation Jimi Hendrix When the power of love overcomes the love of power Quotes

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.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Music

Quotation Jimi Hendrix Knowledge talks wisdom listens Quotes

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

Topics: Music, Fake People, Peace, Music Is Life, Blues Music

Quotation Jimi Hendrix In order to change the world you have to get Quotes

You have to give people something to dream on.

Topics: Dream, People, Giving

Quotation Jimi Hendrix I ve been imitated so well I ve heard people Quotes

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

Topics: Hippie, Goes On, Proud Of Yourself, Hippi

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.

Topics: Guitar, Wish, Cotton, Electric Guitar, Cotton Fields

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

Topics: Music, Mistake, Guitar, Guitar Music

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

source: - Song: Purple Haze

Topics: Song, Kissing, Sky, Excuse Me, Purple Haze

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.

source: - Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting at Zero”, p.11, Heyne Verlag

Topics: Clever, Reality, Mirrors

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

Topics: Notes

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

Topics: Love, Music, Sacrifice, Guitar Player, Things You Love

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

Topics: Inspirational, Change, Order

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

Topics: Cities, World, Gang, Cities In The World

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.

Topics: Sleep, People, Soul

Music is a safe kind of high.

Topics: Music, Safe, Kind

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

Topics: Music Is, Hereafter

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

Topics: Music, Moving, People

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

Topics: Men, Heavy, Helium

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.

Topics: Trying, Enjoy, Stills

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.

Topics: Kids, Black And White, Thinking, Black Person, Old And New

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

Topics: Guitar, Two, Sound

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.

Topics: Fear, Illusion, Excuse

Good and evil lay side by side.

Topics: Philosophy, Evil, Sides

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

Topics: Hands, Mountain, Next

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

Topics: Love, Inspirational, Life, Love Freedom, True Peace

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

Topics: Music, Water, Together, Flamenco, Handel

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.

Topics: Music, Safe, Way, Highness, Guitar Music

.. 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

Topics: Music, Play, Way

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

Topics: Music, Art, Goal

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

Topics: Inspirational, Music, Fun, Filling Up

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Topics: Music, Play, People

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

Topics: Crazy, Heaven, Goes On, Craziness Of Life

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

Topics: Fall, Sea, Castles, Sand Castle

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

Topics: Goodbye, Farewell, Eye, Farewell Love, Good Bye

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Topics: Life, Music, Beautiful, Jazz Musician, Speaking My Mind

When I die, just keep playing the records.

Topics: Records

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

Topics: Music, Keys, Imagination, Tap Dancers, Songwriters

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

Topics: Music, Kids, Naked, Guitar Music

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

Topics: Running, Hippie, Romance, Always Running

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.

Topics: Love, Order, People

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

Topics: Love, Funny, Death

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

Topics: Music, Player, Guitar, Guitar Player

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

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Musicianship, Electric Guitar

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

Topics: Goodbye, Love You, Love Is, Until We Meet Again

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.

Topics: Hate, Moving, Player, Guitar Player, Tap Dancers

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

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

Topics: Together, Sound

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.

Topics: Music, Reflection, World

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

Topics: Writing, Naked, Bland

Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway...

Topics: Sorry, Cowboy, Tunes, Tune Up

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

Topics: Establishment

Evil man make me kill you.

Topics: Men, Evil, Evil Man

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

Topics: Wise, Dream, Past, Inspirational Future, Our Past

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

Topics: Hands, Judging Yourself, Judging Others, Pointing, Judging You

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.

source: - "Song: 'If 6 Was 9'". 1967.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Music, Live For Yourself, Just Being Me

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.

Topics: Sweet, Flower, Heart, Sweet Flowers

Music is Magic. Magic is Life

source: - Song: Woodstock Festival

Topics: Music, Magic, Music Is

Knowledge is speaking, wisdom is listening

Topics: Listening

Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things.

Topics: Waste, Don't Waste Your Time, Bad Things

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

Topics: Music, Play, Feelings

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.

Topics: Mean, Thinking, Views, Technicalities

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

Topics: Music, Intention, Can Do

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

source: - Song: And The Wind Cries Mary

Topics: Sadness, Yesterday, Broken, Brooms, Broken Pieces

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

Topics: Heaven, Sake, Live For Yourself

Music is my religion.

Topics: Music, Religion, Rock N Roll, Music Is My Life

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

Topics: Dream, Love You, Evil

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

Topics: Hurt, Regret, Past

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.

Topics: Music, Sitting, Chairs

Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.

source: - Song: Earth Blues, Album: Live At The Fillmore East (Live)

Topics: Imagination, Surprise

I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.

Topics: Wise, Past, Thinking

With the power of soul, anything is possible.

source: - Song: Power of Soul

Topics: Religious, Soul, Religion

The world is nothing but a big gimmick.

Topics: World, Gimmicks, Bigs

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

source: - Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.202, A&C Black

Topics: Order, Different, Freak

Jesus shouldn't have died so early and then he could have got twice as much across. They killed him and then twisted so many of the best things he said. Human hands started messing it all up and now so much of religion is hogwash.

Topics: Jesus, Hands, Hogwash, Human Hands

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.

source: - Tony Brown, Jimi Hendrix (2012). “Jimi Hendrix: 'Talking'”, p.130, Music Sales Group

Topics: Morning, Swimming, Bed, Swimming Pool

Really I'm just an actor. The only difference between me and those cats in Hollywood is that I write my own script.

Topics: Writing, Cat, Differences

Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.

Topics: Music, Spiritual, Ocean

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

Topics: Reality, Different, Use, Different Sides

Genealogists live in the past lane.

Topics: Wise, Past, Lanes

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

source: - Song: Little Wing

Topics: Friendship, I'm Sad, Thousand

Oh say, can you see, it's really such a mess. Every inch of earth is a fighting nest. Giant pencial and lipstick tube shaped things, continue to rain and cause scream and pain, and the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red.

Topics: Pain, Rain, Fighting

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.

Topics: Religious, Religion, World, The Next One, Voodoo

Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes ... you play your gig; it's the same thing as the olden days, and these beautiful girls come around.. you do actually fall in love with them because that's the only love you can have. It's not always the physical thing of "Oh, there's one over there ...", it's not one of those scenes. They actually tell you something. They release different things inside themselves ... "Little Wing" was a very sweet girl that came around that gave me her whole life and more if I wanted it.

Topics: Music, Beautiful, Girl, Olden Days, Sweet Girl

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

Topics: Believe, People, Dollar Bills, Pelicans

Never write a letter while you are angry.

Topics: Wise, Writing, Letters, Anger And Pain

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

Topics: Friendship, Sweet, Digging

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?

source: - Song: Purple Haze

Topics: Eye, Night, Purple, You Got Me, Haze

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.

Topics: People, Loving You, Forget

Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love

source: - Song: Drifting

Topics: Sadness, Sea, Sailing, Teardrop, Lifeboats

Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts.

source: - "The Dick Cavett Show", September 09, 1969.

Topics: Music, Spiritual, Art, Meaning Nothing, Big Ego

You're a woman, at least you taste like you are.

source: - Song: Stepping Stone

Topics: Taste, Like You, Endearment

You know you are a sweet little heart breaker, foxy lady.

Topics: Sweet, Heart, Littles

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

source: - Source: blankonblank.org

Topics: Song, Unbearable, States

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

Topics: Music, Stage, Addicted To Music

My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.

source: - Song: Crystal Ball

Topics: Son, Race, Wife, Outer Space

Well, obviously religion must come from inside.

Topics: Wells

I'm a million miles away, and at the same time I'm right here in your picture frame.

source: - Song: Voodoo Chile, Album: Electric Ladyland

Topics: Expression, Miles, Picture Frames

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.

Topics: Running, Dog, Distance

They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes

Topics: Mistake, People, Copying

I use to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me.

source: - Song: Room Full Of Mirrors

Topics: Mirrors, Use, Rooms

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

Topics: War, Guarantees, Horrible

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

Topics: Weed, Alcohol, Drug, Heed

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

source: - Jimi Hendrix, Roger St. Pierre (1986). “Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems”

Topics: Low Self Esteem, Miles, Walks

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

source: - Song: House Burning Down, Album: Electric Ladyland

Topics: Philosophy, Truth Is

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

Topics: Artist, Ideas, People

I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.

Topics: Music, Play, Space

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.

source: - Source: blankonblank.org

Topics: Hair, Order, Ties

I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time.

Topics: Want, Way, Causes

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.

Topics: Thinking, Accomplishment, Bored

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.

source: - Source: blankonblank.org

Topics: Thinking, Guitar, Tonight

I found myself in too much of a box situation.

source: - Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.187, A&C Black

Topics: Too Much, Boxes, Found

Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.

Topics: Revenge, Men, Gun

It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going... they'll appreciate the music.

Topics: People, Appreciate, Want

A girl asked me if she could comb my hair. Nobody can comb my hair, I can’t even comb my hair.

source: - Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.64, A&C Black

Topics: Girl, Hair, Combs

I try to get up every day.

source: - "The Dick Cavett Show", September 9, 1969.

Topics: Trying, Get Up

Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn't full of danger

Topics: Life, Danger, Dangerous

... with Voodoo Child somebody was filming when we started doing that. We did that about three times because they wanted to film us in the studio, to make us (imitates a pompous voice) 'make it look like you're recording boys' - one of them scenes, you know, so okey, let's play this and then we went into Voodoo Child

Topics: Music, Children, Boys, Voodoo

I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time... I'll give it right back to you, one of these days

source: - Song: Voodoo Child

Topics: Song, Sweet, Mean

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

Topics: Sound, Kenny

The night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red.

source: - Song: Voodoo Chile, Album: Electric Ladyland

Topics: Family, Moon, Night

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.

Topics: Race, Helping, Burden

Sometimes the music people put you into these big, rush things.

Topics: People, Sometimes, Bigs

Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.

source: - Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.120, A&C Black

Topics: Queens, Revenge, Purple, Metallic, Fiery

I try all night to play a pretty note.

Topics: Night, Play, Trying

I love Dylan. I only met him once, about three years ago, back at the Kettle of Fish on MacDougal Street. That was before I went to England. I think both of us were pretty drunk at the time, so he probably doesn’t remember it.

Topics: Thinking, Years, Drunk, Kettles, Three Years

There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.

Topics: Political, Get Away, Happenings

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

source: - Song: Ball and Chain for Sale

Topics: Evil, Sitting, Shelves, You Got Me, Evil Women

The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall.

source: - Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.103, A&C Black

Topics: Wall, Sadness, Portraits

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

Topics: Reality, Thinking, Trying

Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..I might as well go back over yonder, way back across the hills, if my baby dont love me no more....i know her...sister will

Topics: Baby, Guitar, Looks

As you well know, you just can't believe everything you see and hear, can you?

source: - Jimi Hendrix, Roger St. Pierre (1986). “Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems”

Topics: Believe, Wells, Knows

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

Topics: Pet, Monkeys, Charlie

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.

Topics: Baby, Rejection, Mind

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.

Topics: Get Better, Release, These Days, It Gets Better

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

source: - Song: Little Wing

Topics: Zebras, Butterfly, Thinking, Moonbeams

The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend.

source: - Source: blankonblank.org

Topics: Writing, Reality, Different, Different Sides

I'll always touch you.

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

source: - Song: SWEET ANGEL ANGEL, 1971

Topics: Love, Sweet, Moon, Deep Blue Sea, Blue Sea

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

Topics: Mind, Nine, Six

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

source: - Song: Little Miss Strange, Album: Electric Ladyland

Topics: Eye, Evil, Missing, Evil Women

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

source: - Song: Crosstown Traffic

Topics: Relationship, Traffic, Hard

I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage.

Topics: Believe, Should Have, Rooms

If my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will.

source: - Song: Red House

Topics: Baby, Infidelity, Adultery

We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking.

Topics: Mean, Alcohol, Smoking

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

Topics: Morning, Children, Wings

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

source: - Song: Machine Gun

Topics: Relationship, Pain, Rain

Have you ever been experienced? Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.

source: - Song: Are You Experienced?

Topics: Beautiful, Alcohol, Drug

I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good...

source: - "Jimi Hendrix, in his own words: 'I dig Strauss and Wagner - those cats are good'" by Jimi Hendrix, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2013.

Topics: Music, Cat, Wagner

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.

source: - Song: Purple Haze

Topics: Hippie, Kissing, Sky, Haze, Purple Haze

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

source: - Jimi Hendrix, Roger St. Pierre (1986). “Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems”

Topics: Depression, Soul, Touching, Manic Depression, Manic

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

Topics: Travel, Dragonflies, Half

Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you'll never hear surf music again.

Topics: People, Surf, Outer Space

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

Topics: Government, Civilization, Police

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.

source: - Jimi Hendrix, Roger St. Pierre (1986). “Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems”

Topics: Hippie, Cutting, Hair, My Own World

There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber.

Topics: Smoking, Gas, Chamber, Gas Chambers, No Smoking

Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye

Topics: Eye, Life Is, Blink, Blink Of An Eye

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.

Topics: Running, Fun, Track, Misogyny, Evil Women

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

Topics: Movement, Want, Bigs

It's really hard to know what people want around here sometimes.

source: - Tony Brown, Jimi Hendrix (2012). “Jimi Hendrix: 'Talking'”, p.45, Music Sales Group

Topics: People, Want, Sometimes

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.

Topics: Song, Writing, Would Be

I think it would count more, if we did less personal appearances.

Topics: Thinking, Appearance, Personal Appearance

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

Topics: Ifs

We have time, there's no big rush.

Topics: Bigs

A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.

Topics: Order, Singing, Example

Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.

Topics: Wine, Men, Drug

Once you're dead, you're made for life.

Topics: Death, Inspiration, Made, Someone Dying

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

source: - Jimi Hendrix, Roger St. Pierre (1986). “Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems”

Topics: Mind, Ifs

Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.

source: - Song: Dolly Dagger

Topics: Evil, Riding, Fifteen, Evil Women, Broomsticks

I'm up here in this womb, I'm looking all around. We'll, I'm looking out my belly button window and I see a whole lot of frowns.

source: - Song: Belly Button Window, 1971

Topics: Family, Buttons, Window, Belly Buttons

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.

source: - Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.78, A&C Black

Topics: Past, Wind, Names

You got your God and so do I.

source: - Song: Midnight lightnin'

Topics: Religious, Religion

.. 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

Topics: Music, Cat, Player

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.

Topics: Eye, Play, Ears

Fall mountains, just don't fall on me.

source: - Song: If 6 Was 9, Album: Axis: Bold As Love

Topics: Fall, Advice, Mountain

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

Topics: Men, Dying, Messages, Need Help, Overdose

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

Topics: Singing, Today, Singing The Blues

My nature just changes.

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.

source: - Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.76, A&C Black

Topics: Thinking, Sitting, Might

You know I'll kiss you for my supper. Yeah, you know I'll kiss you for my dinner, baby.

source: - Jimi Hendrix, Roger St. Pierre (1986). “Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems”

Topics: Baby, Kissing, Dinner

Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.

Topics: Glasses, Mirrors, Broken, Broken Glass

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

Topics: Names, Promotion

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

source: - Song: 1983... A Merman I Should Turn To Be

Topics: Kings, Grace, Would Be

Hey motor cycle mama, you gonna marry me?

source: - Song: Ezy Ryder, Album: The Cry of Love, 1971

Topics: Quality, Hey, Mama

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.

source: - "Song: 'If 6 Was 9'". 1967.

Topics: Freedom, White, Flags, Pointing, White Collar

And it's no war games, because they all keep the same place. But like the solar system is going through a change soon and it's going to affect the Earth in about 30 years.

Topics: War, Years, Games, War Games

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.

source: - Source: blankonblank.org

Topics: Rooms, More Money, Flats

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.

source: - Source: blankonblank.org

Topics: Ideas, New Inventions, Burden

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.

Topics: Talking, Gigs, Periods

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

Topics: Ideas, People, Should

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

Topics: Music, Thinking, Play

Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?

source: - Song: Are You Experienced?, Album: Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection

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

source: - Song: 3rd Stone From The Sun

Topics: Land, Wish, Mountain, Space Exploration

Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.

source: - Song: Wait Until Tomorrow, Album: Axis: Bold As Love

Topics: Family, Daddy, Bangs, Poor Me

In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.

Topics: Country, War, Opposites, Complete Opposites

You may almost forget the smell of your family.

source: - Song: May I Whisper in Your Ear

Topics: Family, Smell, May

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

Topics: Mean, Hair, Ties

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

Topics: Wanted, Knows, Ifs

Manic depression is a frustratin' mess.

Topics: Insanity, Mess, Manic Depression, Manic

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.

source: - Source: blankonblank.org

Topics: Believe, Should Have, Rooms

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