Hendrix's Quotes

#1. Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#2. It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#3. I love you, Gretchen Lang. You are my reflection and my shadow and I will not let you go. We are bound together forever and ever! Until Halley's Comet comes around again. I love you dearly and I love you queerly and no demon is bigger than this! - Author: Grady Hendrix

#4. 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. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#5. When the power of love takes over the love of power that's when things will change - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#6. Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism. - Author: Perry Farrell

#7. There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#8. 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. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#9. She's a devil in disguise, I can tell by looking in her eyes, little Miss Strange. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#10. Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#11. Julieanne Smolinksi has a history in rock journalism and she's a huge rock 'n' roll fan, and she was a huge fan of Ava (Elaine Hendrix) and Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies) and of the actresses. I was really lucky to get her, in between seasons on Grace and Frankie. - Author: Denis Leary

#12. The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really. - Author: Jimmy Page

#13. Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again
S-E-R-F music. - Author: Jello Biafra

#14. The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#15. Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star. There's no way you can compare him. You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it. There's nobody who can take his place. - Author: Freddie Mercury

#16. Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#17. This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#18. I have to have music playing constantly. It creates the tone and mood for anything you are doing. I specifically love rock, and Jimi Hendrix is one of my favorite artists. My favorite song is 'Red House,' because it's heavy on the blues. - Author: Marisa Miller

#19. I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing. - Author: Dweezil Zappa

#20. The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest. - Author: Steven Van Zandt

#21. Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#22. 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. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#23. Flatten your ego a bit, will ya? It's getting crowded in here. - Author: M. Clarke

#24. We have time, there's no big rush. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#25. Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#26. She's the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome. - Author: John Green

#27. The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero. - Author: Carlos Santana

#28. The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#29. Stop saying drug use makes people lazy. Jimi Hendrix did a lot of drugs, even though he's been dead for forty years, he's still making new records. Suck on that, Partnership for a Drug-Free America! - Author: Bill Maher

#30. It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#31. Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along. - Author: Nigel Kennedy

#32. Jody screamed at him: a high, explosive, unintelligible expulsion of pure inhuman frustration
a Hendrix high note sampled and sung by a billion suffering souls in Hell's own choir. - Author: Christopher Moore

#33. When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to. - Author: Chrissie Hynde

#34. You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he's showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it's confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn't feel like he deserves to be there. - Author: Bruno Mars

#35. Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#36. This is your life - you must die by yourself, so for heaven's sake, live for yourself and no one else ... - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#37. Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#38. I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing! - Author: Earl Monroe

#39. I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's. - Author: Ian MacKaye

#40. I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died. - Author: Narada Michael Walden

#41. Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically. - Author: Frank Zappa

#42. You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around. - Author: Stevie Ray Vaughan

#43. I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him. - Author: Warren Zevon

#44. It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#45. There are enough people running around in here. It's starting to feel like an episode of Scooby-Doo. - Author: Grady Hendrix

#46. When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass. - Author: Jason Newsted

#47. 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. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#48. Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#49. I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left. - Author: Stevie Nicks

#50. As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix. - Author: Matt Schulze

#51. Something I learned from the Serbian tribes. Churches are built where saints were martyred. A bridge requires a child in its foundations if it is to hold. All great works must begin with a sacrifice. - Author: Grady Hendrix

#52. It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going ... they'll appreciate the music. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#53. 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. - Author: Kanye West

#54. A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#55. If I'm free, it's because I'm always running - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#56. I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#57. 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 - Author: Nikki Sixx

#58. 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. - Author: Ziggy Marley

#59. Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from. - Author: Robin Trower

#60. 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. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#61. We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood. - Author: Harville Hendrix

#62. 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. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#63. Genealogists live in the past lane. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#64. Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#65. 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. - Author: Dhani Harrison

#66. 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. - Author: Marisa Miller

#67. It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed. - Author: Pete Townshend

#68. Evil man make me kill you. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#69. We take our last look at the killing noise. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#70. 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. - Author: Charlotte Rampling

#71. Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents, but for the best possible reason! Doing so brings our childhood wounds to the surface so they can be healed. - Author: Harville Hendrix

#72. I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind. - Author: Patti Smith

#73. Is this love, baby, or is this just confusion? - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#74. They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#75. Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#76. You were supposed to love me. You convinced me it was safe to love you back. Liz Sutton to Ethan Hendrix - Author: Susan Mallery

#77. Jimi Hendrix was just so fluid. His hands were connected to his soul, you know? His playing was just so emotional. You could feel the fire, you could feel the blues. You could feel the sadness. It's unbelievable. - Author: Lenny Kravitz

#78. Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#79. When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQueen. He's not a rock star, but he's kind of a rock star to me. - Author: John Varvatos

#80. Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You got me blowin', blowin' my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time? - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#81. A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#82. Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking. - Author: Gus Van Sant

#83. I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#84. 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. - Author: Patti Smith

#85. 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. - Author: Meshell Ndegeocello

#86. It's really hard to know what people want around here sometimes. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#87. Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#88. 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. - Author: Pedro

#89. May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#90. You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That's how it can bend. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#91. 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. - Author: Patti Smith

#92. Let's make sure it's really raining before we worry about floods. - Author: Grady Hendrix

#93. 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. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#94. It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#95. 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. - Author: DJ Jazzy Jeff

#96. Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#97. See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#98. When a forty-minute swim in the Hendrix's underground pool failed to dispel either the longing for Miriam Bancroft's torrid company or the Merge Nine hangover, I did the only thing I felt equipped for. I ordered painkillers from room service, and went shopping. - Author: Richard K. Morgan

#99. 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. - Author: Jimi Hendrix

#100. Three's all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience. - Author: Garth Risk Hallberg