Jimi Hendrix Quotes

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

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Well she's walking through the clouds
With a circus mind that's running wild.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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And so cashes made of sand melts into the sea, eventually.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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I have only one burning desire
Let me stand next to your fire!

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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Question: Do you play the guitar with your teeth?
Hendrix: No, with my ears.

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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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I don't really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me. I know a whole lot of musicians, artists out there who hears the compliments and thinks "wow, I must have been really great" and so they get fat and satisfied and they get lost and forget about their actual talent and start living in another world.

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I'd like to take part in a change of reality.

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

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

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