Top 100 Jimi Hendrix Quotes
#1. May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.
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#2. Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.
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#3. Is this love, baby, or is this just confusion?
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#5. If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you.
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#6. The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
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#7. A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.
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#8. All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.
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#9. When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
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#10. It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going ... they'll appreciate the music.
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#11. Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.
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#12. Peace, Love, and Happiness.
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#13. I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
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#14. See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
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#15. Jesus shouldn't have died so early and then he could have got twice as much across. They killed him and then twisted so many of the best things he said. Human hands started messing it all up and now so much of religion is hogwash.
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#16. It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.
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#17. When I'm sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles.
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#19. There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.
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#20. You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That's how it can bend.
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#21. You know you are a sweet little heart breaker, foxy lady.
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#22. Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind.
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#23. Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.
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#24. It's really hard to know what people want around here sometimes.
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#25. Those times i burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. we all burn things we love. i love my guitar
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#27. I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.
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#28. 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.
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#30. I will be dead in five years' time, but while I am here, I will travel many highways and I will, of necessity, die at a time when my message of love, peace, and freedom can be shared with people all over the world.
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#31. Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.
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#32. Now if I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late, don't be late, cause I'm a voodoo chile.
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#33. A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.
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#34. When I die, just keep playing the records.
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#35. 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.
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#36. Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.
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#37. 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.
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#38. Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.
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#39. I didn't know it was anger until they told me that it was, like with destruction and all that. But I believe everybody should have like a room where they can get rid of all their releases, where they can do their releases at. So my room is a stage.
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#40. Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love
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#42. Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand
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#43. And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually..
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#44. Anyway, you know good and well it would be beyond the will of God, and the grace of the King
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#45. And it's no war games, because they all keep the same place. But like the solar system is going through a change soon and it's going to affect the Earth in about 30 years.
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#46. The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye ... until we meet again
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#48. Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.
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#49. Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.
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#51. Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
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#52. There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber.
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#53. So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.
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#54. Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.
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#55. Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.
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#56. This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise.
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#57. You're not the only one accused of hit and run. Tire tracks all across my back, well I can see you've had your fun.
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#58. One time I said: maybe I should burn a guitar tonight. You know smash a guitar or something like that. And they said: yeah, yeah! I said: you really think I should? They said: yeah, that'd be cool. I said: well, ok.
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#60. Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.
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#62. I'm a million miles away, and at the same time I'm right here in your picture frame.
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#63. Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out.
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#64. She's a devil in disguise, I can tell by looking in her eyes, little Miss Strange.
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#65. 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.
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#66. I try to use my music to move these people to act.
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#67. You're just like crosstown traffic, so hard to get through to you.
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#68. Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?
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#69. You have to give people something to dream on.
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#70. After awhile, your, your cheap talk don't even cause me pain, so let your bullets fly like rain.
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#71. 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?
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#72. If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.
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#74. I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time.
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#75. My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don't get them together nobody else will.
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#76. 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.
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#78. I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.
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#79. It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.
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#80. I love Dylan. I only met him once, about three years ago, back at the Kettle of Fish on MacDougal Street. That was before I went to England. I think both of us were pretty drunk at the time, so he probably doesn't remember it.
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#81. I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy
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#82. Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.
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#83. I think everybody should believe in himself. I suppose, in a way, that's also believing in God. If there is a God and He made you, then believing in yourself is also believing in Him. Once you carry God inside yourself, then you're part of Him.
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#84. A lot of ppl are making more money than they ever had nowadays - so when they get their flat they can, they always find themselves with an extra room.
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#85. Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space
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#86. Sometimes you'll want to give up the guitar. You'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.
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#87. The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall.
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#88. My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.
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#89. Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.
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#93. 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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#94. The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
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#95. The one that rambles for a million miles, yes, I walk down this road searching for your love.
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#96. It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.
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#97. I think it would count more, if we did less personal appearances.
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#99. The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.
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#100. 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.
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