The Jimi Hendrix Experience Quotes
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So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.
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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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If 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind.
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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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You know you are a sweet little heart breaker, foxy lady.
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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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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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I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.
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You have to give people something to dream on.
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This is your life - you must die by yourself, so for heaven's sake, live for yourself and no one else. . . .
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When I'm sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles.
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Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.
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The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
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I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.
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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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You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
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Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
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Fall mountains, just don't fall on me.
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If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.
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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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Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.
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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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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.