Jimi Hendrix Quotes

Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.

Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience

• Dying
• Message
• Heroin
• Overdose
• Answering machine

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• I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

  

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• I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

  

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• I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

  

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• I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

  

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• I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

  

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• Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.'

  

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• I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

  

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• I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.

  

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• Luckily, there is a wind of change happening in Hindi cinema. Good work is coming to people who are not conventionally good looking like Ranbir Kapoor or Akshay Kumar.

  

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• For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.

  

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• I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.

  

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• The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.

  

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• To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

  

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• The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is 'wrong' and arises from insular ignorance.

  

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• Thanks, God, for honoring our best by giving us a miracle.

  

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• I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know anyone who does. But this is certain: too many people have lost their lives who shouldn’t have.

  

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• I wasted most of my 20s being so frustrated I forgot to have fun. I was so concentrated on one thing - 'Must make movie.'

  

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• The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.

  

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• I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.'

  

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• Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Dying
  • Message
  • Heroin