Top 100 Hendrix Jimi Quotes
#1. I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks.
Aynsley Dunbar
#2. You know you are a sweet little heart breaker, foxy lady.
Jimi Hendrix
#3. I went into the house. I put on Jimi Hendrix's 'Red House' at full volume, filled the glass to the brim with rum, without ice, and went back to the terrace. To gaze at the night and the dark sea and the night.
Pedro
#4. You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That's how it can bend.
Jimi Hendrix
#5. There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.
Carlos Santana
#6. With any new civilization ... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that.
Jimi Hendrix
#7. There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.
Jimi Hendrix
#8. As we headed back to Tangier we saw a shepherd guiding a camel with her calf. Rolling down the window, I called out: - What is the little one's name? - His name is Jimi Hendrix. - Hooray, I wake from yesterday! - Inshallah! he called out.
Patti Smith
#9. The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.
Jimi Hendrix
#10. WHEN THE POWER OF LOVE IS STRONGER THAN THE LOVE OF POWER, THE WORLD WILL KNOW PEACE - JIMI HENDRIX.
Stephen King
#11. The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.
Roy Wood
#14. I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is achin', my back is breakin', feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover.
Jimi Hendrix
#15. When I'm sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles.
Jimi Hendrix
#16. You have to be a freak in order to be different.
Jimi Hendrix
#17. You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
Carlos Santana
#18. I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles constantly were big influences on my life.
Phil Anselmo
#19. Of course, all of the coolest icons overdosed and died years ago, which is just as well. How depressing would it be to see a gray-haired Jimi Hendrix wearing a cardigan sweater and reminiscing about the soundtrack of the Summer of Love?
Wally Lamb
#20. Oh say, can you see, it's really such a mess. Every inch of earth is a fighting nest. Giant pencial and lipstick tube shaped things, continue to rain and cause scream and pain, and the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red.
Jimi Hendrix
#21. Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening
Jimi Hendrix
#22. Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
Jimi Hendrix
#23. Two of the guys that were honorary Vampires - Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix - had died at 27. And they were certainly archangels in our group.
Alice Cooper
#24. It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.
Jimi Hendrix
#25. I learned from Jimi Hendrix. They all wanted him to do the tricks, and at the end of his career, he just wanted to play. I lived longer than he did, and I can see how those pressures can really play with your head.
Prince
#26. I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.
Mick Taylor
#27. Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.
Patti Smith
#28. 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.
Jimi Hendrix
#29. Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.
Gus Van Sant
#30. I'm a rock 'n' roll baby. I was one of the last actually born into rock, in the middle of it. My mother was a promoter, so I grew up with rock stars. When I was little, people like Jimi Hendrix were walking around in the living room.
Ari Up
#31. Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.
Jimi Hendrix
#32. 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.
Jimi Hendrix
#34. We sat side by side on the swings. The creaking sound they made seemed sexier to me than a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo.
Ryu Murakami
#35. Freaks, they are very prejudiced. You have to have your hair long and talk in a certain way in order to be with them. In order to be the other way you have to have your hair short and wear ties.
Jimi Hendrix
#36. 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.
Jimi Hendrix
#37. Have you ever been experienced? Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.
Jimi Hendrix
#38. A girl asked me if she could comb my hair. Nobody can comb my hair, I can't even comb my hair.
Jimi Hendrix
#39. I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.
Jimi Hendrix
#40. QBert is pretty much the Jimi Hendrix of DJing. He is so far advanced. So far ahead of everybody else. He's like Yoda! Like the guru.
DJ Jazzy Jeff
#42. My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.
Meshell Ndegeocello
#43. You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else.
Jimi Hendrix
#44. Those times i burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. we all burn things we love. i love my guitar
Jimi Hendrix
#45. It's really hard to know what people want around here sometimes.
Jimi Hendrix
#46. 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.
Jimi Hendrix
#47. Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn't full of danger
Jimi Hendrix
#48. Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind.
Jimi Hendrix
#49. Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.
Jimi Hendrix
#50. Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
Bryan Ferry
#51. I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
Jimi Hendrix
#52. 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.
Jimi Hendrix
#53. When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Jimi Hendrix
#54. All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.
Jimi Hendrix
#55. I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul Jones of my generation.
Steven Adler
#56. Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermes factory. Sh*t is real. You're not going to find a chink. It's 100,000 per cent Jimi Hendrix.
Kanye West
#57. All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mainly concentrated on my voice.
James Vincent McMorrow
#58. A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.
Jimi Hendrix
#59. Although your world wonders me,
with your majestic and superior cackling hen
Your people I do not understand,
so to you I shall put an end
And you'll
never hear
surf music again
Jimi Hendrix
#60. If I'm free, it's because I'm always running
Jimi Hendrix
#61. The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
Jimi Hendrix
#62. I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.
Jimi Hendrix
#63. It would be too much for me to deal with to be sitting up there next to God, Bon Scott, Sid Vicious, and Jimi Hendrix, and hear somebody read my obituary from below:
NIKKI SIXX DIED TODAY ... FUCKING GOLFING
Nikki Sixx
#64. I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
Ziggy Marley
#65. Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
Al Stewart
#66. 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
#68. The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.
Dhani Harrison
#69. I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and ... those are my bands.
Marisa Miller
#71. We take our last look at the killing noise.
Jimi Hendrix
#72. I was very friendly with Jimi Hendrix because my boyfriend at the time, Tommy Weber, was making a film about him, so I would go to all of his shows.
Charlotte Rampling
#73. Is this love, baby, or is this just confusion?
Jimi Hendrix
#74. They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes
Jimi Hendrix
#75. Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.
Jimi Hendrix
#76. May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.
Jimi Hendrix
#77. If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.
Jimi Hendrix
#78. I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.
Jimi Hendrix
#79. Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it.
Jimi Hendrix
#80. Happiness is within you ... so unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow- like the sweet flower you are. I know the answer- just spread your wings and set yourself free.
Jimi Hendrix
#81. Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.
Jimi Hendrix
#82. My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
Jimi Hendrix
#83. I used to live in Seattle, as did Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee. I lived near the arboretum. Very often I would take walks late at night by Lake Washington, because I found it very easy to meditate there.
Frederick Lenz
#84. See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
Jimi Hendrix
#85. I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
Jimi Hendrix
#86. I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.
Frederick Lenz
#87. Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.
Jimi Hendrix
#88. Peace, Love, and Happiness.
--- Jimi Hendrix ---
Jimi Hendrix
#89. 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.
Jimi Hendrix
#90. I love Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain. I really do. It doesn't matter what style they had - whether it was pin-up or whatever - it just worked for them, and it looked effortless even though it was fabulous. I like anything that just looks effortless.
Behati Prinsloo
#91. The suits made hits and created stars because they knew something. The suits had been around the block and back, having experienced, firsthand, everyone from Jimmy Dorsey to Jimi Hendrix to Jeff Buckley to J. Lo. I trusted them because they earned that trust, at least on a purely musical level.
Anonymous
#92. You may almost forget the smell of your family.
Jimi Hendrix
#93. I say I'm Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin all wrapped up into one. If I die early ... I'll be just like those guys.
Dennis Rodman
#94. Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.
Jimi Hendrix
#95. Three's all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#96. Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.
Jimi Hendrix
#97. I love playing the Fillmore. I love the walk from the hotel and climbing up those old, iron stairs that lead to the stage. I imagine Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix and the Doors and all those other great bands climbing those same stairs.
Patti Smith
#98. Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.
Jimi Hendrix
#99. Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.
Jimi Hendrix
#100. It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going ... they'll appreciate the music.
Jimi Hendrix
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