Quotes by Jimi Hendrix

• 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.
• 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.
• Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
• I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.
• When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
• If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.
• 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.
• I try to use my music to move these people to act.
• I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
• I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
• Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
• Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.
• Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
• Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
• 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.
• All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.
• 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.
• When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.
• When I die, just keep playing the records.
• When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
• We have time, there's no big rush.
• The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
• In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
• 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.
• 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.
• See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
• Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.
• My nature just changes.
• My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
• Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
• Music is my religion.
• Music is a safe kind of high.
• Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
• The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
• 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.
• 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.
• It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.
• You have to give people something to dream on.
• You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
• It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.
• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
• It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.
• When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
• When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
• When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace
• When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know true peace.