Jimi Hendrix Quotes
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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 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 guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.
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Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.
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I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.
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As you well know, you just can't believe everything you see and hear, can you?
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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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If 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind.
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Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.
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Genealogists live in the past lane.
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You got your God and so do I.
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May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow.
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Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.
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Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.
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.. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players...
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It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.
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You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
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Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes ... you play your gig; it's the same thing as the olden days, and these beautiful girls come around.. you do actually fall in love with them because that's the only love you can have. It's not always the physical thing of "Oh, there's one over there ...", it's not one of those scenes. They actually tell you something. They release different things inside themselves ... "Little Wing" was a very sweet girl that came around that gave me her whole life and more if I wanted it.
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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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Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You got me blowing, blowin' my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?
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Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.
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The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.
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They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes...
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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.