The Jimi Hendrix Experience Quotes
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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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Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.
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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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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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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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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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The night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red.
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Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.
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Well, obviously religion must come from inside.
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Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.
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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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We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.
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I found myself in too much of a box situation.
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The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.
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As you well know, you just can't believe everything you see and hear, can you?
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You're not the only one accused of hit and run. Tire tracks all across my back, well I can see you've had your fun.
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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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You may almost forget the smell of your family.
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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 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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When I'm sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles.
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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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Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.