Quotes

“I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.” Jimi Hendrix

“I try to use my music to move these people to act.” Jimi Hendrix

“It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.” Jimi Hendrix

“Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.” Jimi Hendrix

“When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.” Jimi Hendrix

“All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.” Jimi Hendrix

“When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.” Jimi Hendrix

“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.” Jimi Hendrix

“If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.” Jimi Hendrix

“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.” Jimi Hendrix

“My nature just changes.” Jimi Hendrix

“We have time, there's no big rush.” Jimi Hendrix

“It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.” Jimi Hendrix

“You have to give people something to dream on.” Jimi Hendrix

“See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.” Jimi Hendrix

“Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.” Jimi Hendrix

“Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.” Jimi Hendrix

“I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.” Jimi Hendrix

“There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.” Jim Morrison

“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” Jim Morrison

“Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.” Jim Morrison

“I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.” Jim Morrison

“It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.” Jim Morrison

“I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.” Jim Morrison

“Love cannot save you from your own fate.” Jim Morrison

“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.” Jim Morrison

“Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.” Jim Morrison

“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.” Jim Morrison

“Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.” Jim Morrison

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.” Jim Morrison