Jimi Hendrix Quotes

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

Jimi Hendrix
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.

Jimi Hendrix
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.

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

Jimi Hendrix
Hey Joe,
Where're you going with that gun in your hand?

Jimi Hendrix
A musician, if he's a messenger, is like a child who hasn't been handled too many times by man, hasn't had too many fingerprints across his brain.

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

Jimi Hendrix
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.

Jimi Hendrix
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.

Jimi Hendrix
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.

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

Jimi Hendrix
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.

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

Jimi Hendrix
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.

Jimi Hendrix