Jimi Hendrix > Quotes

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
― Jimi Hendrix

“The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again”
― Jimi Hendrix

“Who are you to judge the life i live
i know i'm not perfect and i don't live to be.
but before you start pointing fingers
make sure your hands are clean.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“Excuse me while I kiss the sky.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“Music is a safe kind of high.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.”
― 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. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“Butterflies and zebras
and moonbeams and fairy tales,
That's all she ever thinks about,
Riding with the wind.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven. ”
― Jimi Hendrix

“And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.”
― 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

“All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.”
― Jimi Hendrix

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

“Music is my religion.”
― 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 things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“those times i burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. we all burn things we love. i love my guitar”
― Jimi Hendrix

“Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye”
― Jimi Hendrix

“I'll always touch you.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?”
― 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

“Even castles made of sand,
fall into the sea,
eventually.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“I try all night to play a pretty note.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“If the mountains fell in the sea,
Let it be, it ain't me.
Got my own world to live through
And I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9,
I don't mind, I don't mind.
If all the hippies cut off their hair,
I don't care, I don't care.
Did, 'cos I got my own world to live through
And I ain't gonna copy you.”
― Jimi Hendrix