The Jimi Hendrix Experience Quotes
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There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber.
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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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But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.
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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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As you well know, you just can't believe everything you see and hear, can 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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Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.
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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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I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
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A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.
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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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Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.
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Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.
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I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.
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Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
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If 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind.
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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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There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.
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Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.
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Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.
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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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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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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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Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.