The Jimi Hendrix Experience Quotes
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Never write a letter while you are angry.
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The world is nothing but a big gimmick.
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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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You know I'll kiss you for my supper. Yeah, you know I'll kiss you for my dinner, baby.
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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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If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.
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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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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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I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.
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Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
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Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.
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A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.
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I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.
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Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.
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Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.
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Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.
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They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes...
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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 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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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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Once you're dead, you're made for life.
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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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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.
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Well, obviously religion must come from inside.