Quotes by Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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

Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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

Jimi Hendrix

When I die, just keep playing the records.

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

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

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

You have to give people something to dream on.

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

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

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

Jimi Hendrix

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

Jimi Hendrix

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

Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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

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 - no...

Jimi Hendrix

Author Bio

  • NameJimi Hendrix
  • DescriptionAmerican musician, singer and songwriter
  • AliasesJames Marshall Hendrix; Johnny Allen Hendrix
  • BornNovember 27, 1942
  • DiedSeptember 18, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Singer-songwriter; Singer; Composer; Musician
  • AwardsUK Music Hall Of Fame; Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame; Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award