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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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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This is a lesson about life: This is one person. This is another person. This is one person trying to understand another person, even though it doesn't have room to download the other person into it's brain. It cannot understand the other person, even though it tries to. So he ends up overflowing with knowledge.
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The pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won't get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center. I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.
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I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
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The gates made of light swing open. You see in.
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
