The Jimi Hendrix Experience Quotes
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One time I said: maybe I should burn a guitar tonight. You know smash a guitar or something like that. And they said: yeah, yeah! I said: you really think I should? They said: yeah, that'd be cool. I said: well, ok.
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Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
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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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A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.
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They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes...
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Jesus shouldn't have died so early and then he could have got twice as much across. They killed him and then twisted so many of the best things he said. Human hands started messing it all up and now so much of religion is hogwash.
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Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.
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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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There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.
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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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Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.
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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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I found myself in too much of a box situation.
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Well, obviously religion must come from inside.
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Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.
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You may almost forget the smell of your family.
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Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.
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I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is aching, my back is breaking, feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover.
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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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Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.
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It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.
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I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.
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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 got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.