Best 168 quotes of Jimi Hendrix on MyQuotes

In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.

Is this love, baby, or is this just confusion?

I think it would count more, if we did less personal appearances.

I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.

I try all night to play a pretty note.

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

It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.

It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.

It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.

It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going... they'll appreciate the music.

It's very far away, it takes about a half and a day to get there, if we travel by my... dragon-fly. No, it's not in Spain, but all the same, you know, it's a groovy name. And the wind's just right... Hang on, my darling, hang on if you wanna go. Hear it's a really groovy place, with just a little bit Spanish Castle Magic.

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 use to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me.

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

I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table.

I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.

I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up.

I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.

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 wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.

Jesus shouldn't have died so early and then he could have got twice as much across. They killed him and then twisted so many of the best things he said. Human hands started messing it all up and now so much of religion is hogwash.

Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

Let me live my life the way I want to.

Manic depression is a frustratin' mess.

Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye

Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes ... you play your gig; it's the same thing as the olden days, and these beautiful girls come around.. you do actually fall in love with them because that's the only love you can have. It's not always the physical thing of "Oh, there's one over there ...", it's not one of those scenes. They actually tell you something. They release different things inside themselves ... "Little Wing" was a very sweet girl that came around that gave me her whole life and more if I wanted it.

Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..I might as well go back over yonder, way back across the hills, if my baby dont love me no more....i know her...sister will

Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn't full of danger

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.

May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow.

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

Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.

Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.

Music is Magic. Magic is Life

Music is my religion.

Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.

Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

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

My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don't get them together nobody else will.

My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.

Never write a letter while you are angry.

Now if I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late, don't be late, cause I'm a voodoo chile.

Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind.

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.

Oh say, can you see, it's really such a mess. Every inch of earth is a fighting nest. Giant pencial and lipstick tube shaped things, continue to rain and cause scream and pain, and the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red.

Once you're dead, you're made for life.