Skip to content
Jimi Hendrix
Quotes by Jimi Hendrix
Quotes by Jimi Hendrix
“I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Music is a safe kind of high.”
Jimi Hendrix
“All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Excuse me while I kiss the sky.”
Jimi Hendrix
“When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.”
Jimi Hendrix
“White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.”
Jimi Hendrix
“If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.”
Jimi Hendrix
“I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”
Jimi Hendrix
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
Jimi Hendrix
“I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Music is my religion.”
Jimi Hendrix
“You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”
Jimi Hendrix
“The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.”
Jimi Hendrix
“I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.”
Jimi Hendrix
“I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.”
Jimi Hendrix
“The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.”
Jimi Hendrix
“In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.”
Jimi Hendrix
“It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.”
Jimi Hendrix
“To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?”
Jimi Hendrix
“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.”
Jimi Hendrix
“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.”
Jimi Hendrix
“You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.”
Jimi Hendrix
“You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.”
Jimi Hendrix
“I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.”
Jimi Hendrix
