Jimi Hendrix
28 quotes
Biography
"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."
"The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye."
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens"
"My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art."
"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to."
"The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again"
"Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours."
"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."
"Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway..."
"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel."
"I’m sorry, am I mumbling? Tell me when I’m mumbling. Damn … I always mumble."
"I don’t want to be a clown anymore. I don’t want to be a ‘rock and roll star.'"
"Start with a shovel, wind up with a spoon."
"I try to get up every day."
"Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts."
"We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... 'Cause there are so many sleeping people."
"I don't really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me. I know a whole lot of musicians, artists out there who hears the compliments and thinks "wow, I must have been really great" and so they get fat and satisfied and they get lost and forget about their actual talent and start living in another world."
"Castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually"
"When the power of love overcomes love of power the world will know peace."
"There's so many tight-lipped ideas and laws around, and people put themselves in uniforms so tightly, that it's almost impossible to break out of that. Subconsciously, what these people are doing, they're killin' off all these little flashes they have, cutting off the idea of wanting to understand. They forgot, didn't believe, or just snuffed the feelings or thoughts off to continue with their crazy soul. They don't have the patience to really check out what's happenin' through music, theater and science. It’s like a spaceship. If a spaceship came down and you know nothin’ about it, the first thing you’re going to think about is shooting it. In other words, you get negative in the first place, which is not really the natural way of thinking. It’s like shooting at a flying saucer as it tries to land without giving the occupants a chance to identify themselves."
"Individual is unable to conform to military rules and regulations. Misses bed check: sleeps while supposed to be working: unsatisfactory duty performance."
"I want him to be remembered for what he was – not this tragic figure he has been turned into by nit-pickers and people who used to stalk us and collect photographs and 'evidence' of what we were doing on a certain day. He could be grumpy, and he could be terrible in the studio, getting exactly what he wanted – but he was fun, he was charming. I want people to remember the man I knew."
"I said, "You’re Jimi Hendrix, and anything you do is taken as gospel because of who you are. In the first show, you humped the guitar, you played it with your teeth, you stuck it behind your back. You just forgot to play.”"
"We started from the premise that music was a mission, not a competition … That the basis was the blues, but that the framework of the blues was too tight. We'd talk first about what he wanted the emotion of the song to be. What's the vision? He would talk in colours and my job was to give him the electronic palette which would engineer those colours so he could paint the canvas."