Jimi Hendrix Quotes

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”

“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.”

“Music is my religion.”

“Excuse me while I kiss the sky.”

“I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.”

“Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.”

“In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.”

“The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye.”

“With the power of soul, anything is possible.”

“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.”

“I don't play guitar, I make love to it.”

“Don't put it down. Just practice.”

“I don't want to get caught up in those kind of labels though, you know. I don't want it to be, well okay, well he's playing the blues, or he's playing like R&B, or Soul or what — all that kind of stuff — those cages, man. It's not about style. I want my music to go inside the soul of a person. For me it's colors. I want people to feel the same way I see it. It's just colors — that's it.”

“The wah-wah pedal is great because it doesn't have any notes. Nothing but hitting it straight up using the vibrato and then the drums come through, and that there feels like, not depression, but that loneliness and that frustration and the yearning for something. Like something is reaching out.”

“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. As a word reality is nothing, but each individual's own way of thinking. All I write is what I feel, that's all. I don't really round it off too good. I just keep it naked almost.”

“The first guitarist I was aware of was Muddy Waters. I heard one of his old records when I was a little boy and it scared me to death, because I heard all of those sounds. Wow, what is that all about?”

“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.”

“On some records you hear all this clash and bang and fanciness, but all we're doing is laying down the guitar tracks and then we echo here and there, but we're not adding false electronic things. We use the same thing anyone else would, but we use it with imagination and common sense.”

“I hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player or only as a songwriter. Or only as a music tap dancer.”