Jimi Hendrix Quotes
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I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter. You've got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you've got to know what goes between the notes.
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I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time... I'll give it right back to you, one of these days...
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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.
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Music is a safe kind of high.
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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.
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When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.
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There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.
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Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand...
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There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber.
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A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.
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Anyway, you know good and well it would be beyond the will of God, and the grace of the King...
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They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes...
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The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.
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Freaks, they are very prejudiced. You have to have your hair long and talk in a certain way in order to be with them. In order to be the other way you have to have your hair short and wear ties.
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The world is nothing but a big gimmick.
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There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.
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You know I'll kiss you for my supper. Yeah, you know I'll kiss you for my dinner, baby.
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Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
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When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.
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My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
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I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.
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I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
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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.