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.

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

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.

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.

We have time, there's no big rush.

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.

When I die, just keep playing the records.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

You have to give people something to dream on.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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