Quotes By Jimi Hendrix

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

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

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

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

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.

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.

My nature just changes.

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

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

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 have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

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

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

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.

We have time, there's no big rush.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

When I die, just keep playing the records.

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

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

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

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