Top 100 Quotes About Hendrix
#1. May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.
Jimi Hendrix
#2. Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.
Jimi Hendrix
#3. They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes
Jimi Hendrix
#4. Is this love, baby, or is this just confusion?
Jimi Hendrix
#5. 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.
Patti Smith
#6. 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.
Harville Hendrix
#7. 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
#8. We take our last look at the killing noise.
Jimi Hendrix
#10. 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.
Pete Townshend
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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.
Grady Hendrix
#15. 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
#16. We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood.
Harville Hendrix
#17. 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
#18. Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from.
Robin Trower
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.
Jimi Hendrix
#22. The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
Jimi Hendrix
#23. If I'm free, it's because I'm always running
Jimi Hendrix
#24. 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
#25. And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'
Ian MacKaye
#26. A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.
Jimi Hendrix
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.
Jimi Hendrix
#31. When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Jimi Hendrix
#32. Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
Al Stewart
#33. 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
#34. Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.
Jimi Hendrix
#35. Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.
Harville Hendrix
#36. Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.
Jimi Hendrix
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.
Ronnie Wood
#40. My first lessons lasted two weeks and it was Jingle Bells. It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix ...
Joe
#41. At first, Hendrix went and became a superstar in London, but if he walked past the Apollo in Harlem, no one would know who he was. I'm the hip-hop version of him.
Nayvadius Cash
#42. Three's all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. You may almost forget the smell of your family.
Jimi Hendrix
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.
Jimi Hendrix
#49. Peace, Love, and Happiness.
--- Jimi Hendrix ---
Jimi Hendrix
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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.
Richard K. Morgan
#53. I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
Jimi Hendrix
#54. See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
Jimi Hendrix
#55. We do not behave out of our identity, we behave out of our understanding of our identity in Christ.
Shelley Hendrix
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
Jimi Hendrix
#59. Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.
Jimi Hendrix
#60. 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
#61. Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it.
Jimi Hendrix
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.
Jimi Hendrix
#68. 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
#69. Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
Jimi Hendrix
#70. Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening
Jimi Hendrix
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. Let's make sure it's really raining before we worry about floods.
Grady Hendrix
#76. You have to be a freak in order to be different.
Jimi Hendrix
#77. When I'm sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles.
Jimi Hendrix
#78. 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
#81. 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
#82. WHEN THE POWER OF LOVE IS STRONGER THAN THE LOVE OF POWER, THE WORLD WILL KNOW PEACE - JIMI HENDRIX.
Stephen King
#83. The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.
Jimi Hendrix
#84. 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
#85. There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.
Jimi Hendrix
#86. With any new civilization ... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that.
Jimi Hendrix
#87. 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
#88. You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That's how it can bend.
Jimi Hendrix
#89. You were supposed to love me. You convinced me it was safe to love you back. Liz Sutton to Ethan Hendrix
Susan Mallery
#90. You know you are a sweet little heart breaker, foxy lady.
Jimi Hendrix
#91. 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
#92. I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
Jimi Hendrix
#93. Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
Bryan Ferry
#94. Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.
Jimi Hendrix
#95. Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind.
Jimi Hendrix
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. It's really hard to know what people want around here sometimes.
Jimi Hendrix
#99. Those times i burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. we all burn things we love. i love my guitar
Jimi Hendrix
#100. You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else.
Jimi Hendrix
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