Quotes By Jimi Hendrix

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

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?

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

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.

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

When I die, just keep playing the records.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

You have to give people something to dream on.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

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

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.

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

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.