Jimi Hendrix Quotes
See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
Quotes to Explore
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It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
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Some media outlets refer to 'protesters' and 'militia members,' not 'terrorists,' even though armed antigovernment extremists seizing federal property and expressing a desire to kill and die is a textbook description of domestic terrorism.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
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We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
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He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
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I've always had really messy hair.
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I don't need to publish to make a living.
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I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.
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The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.
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My son calls another man daddy He'll never know my name nor my face God only knows how it hurts me for another to be in my place
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I like Aurora, 'Sleeping Beauty,' because she's just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life - lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.
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Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.
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Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely, rather than imposed by birth or sustained by awesome ritual. You can join the Labour Party without slaughtering a sheep.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language.
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That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.
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See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
