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Jimi Hendrix Quotes About Music

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

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

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.

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

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.

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

Music is my religion.

Music is a safe kind of high.

Jimi Hendrix Quotes About Love

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

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

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.

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

More Quotes by Jimi Hendrix

I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

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

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

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

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

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

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

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?

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.

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.

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

You have to give people something to dream on.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

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.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

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.

It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

When I die, just keep playing the records.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

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.

We have time, there's no big rush.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

My nature just changes.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

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.

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.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

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.

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.

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