The Jimi Hendrix Experience Quotes
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We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... 'Cause there are so many sleeping people.
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Happiness is within you... so unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow- like the sweet flower you are. I know the answer- just spread your wings and set yourself free.
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I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
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Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts.
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Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye...
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I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.
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My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.
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I try to use my music to move these people to act.
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Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
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The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one.
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I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
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You're a woman, at least you taste like you are.
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Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.
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Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.
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The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend.
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.. I get more of a dreamy thing from the audience - it's more of a thing that you go up into. You get into such a pitch sometimes that you go up into another thing. You don't forget about the audience, but you forget about all the paranoia, that thing where you're saying, 'Oh gosh, I'm on stage - what am I going to do now ?' - Then you go into this other thing, and it turns out to be like almost like a play in certain ways
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I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.
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We gotta stop smoking, stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking.
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Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love...
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You've got to know much more than the mere technicalities of notes. You've got to know sounds and what goes between the notes.
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Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.
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If my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will.
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I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy...