Quotes By Jimi Hendrix

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

Music is my religion.

Music is a safe kind of high.

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

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

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.

When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

My nature just changes.

Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

We have time, there's no big rush.

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.

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?

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

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.

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