Jimi Hendrix Quotes
Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come out that way - is try to make challenging music that flirts with accessibility.
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As long as I live I will have control over my being.
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Since oceans are the life support system of our planet, regulating the climate, providing most of our oxygen and feeding over a billion people, what's bad for oceans is bad for us - very bad.
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I lost an apartment. l became homeless for 11 months and squatted in a building on Sullivan Street in lower Manhattan.
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In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.
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If anybody sees the work at the Defense Language Institute and the Naval Postgraduate School, they come away just overwhelmed with pride and excitement at how good these schools are and how diverse they are, and that's what the commissioners did.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
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I see a lot of people doing an "'80s thing" who weren't even born until the '90s.
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When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!
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When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.
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I'm usually working on several things at once. If I get bored with one, I can go on to another. That way, I never get stuck.
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The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.
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My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.
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In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.
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You have to go out there and give a piece of yourself -- your life, your soul. And you better give the audience everything you can -- physically, emotionally, musically. Then maybe they'll accept you and give you a standing ovation at the end.
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I think the biggest reward is not physical. I rather obtain things spiritually. I mean, it's so cool to be acknowledged by the public, but that's not my goal. That's not why I make music. I would do it anyway, if there was no reward.
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Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.
