Jimi Hendrix Quotes

• To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we’re trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

  Jimi Hendrix

• The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

  Jimi Hendrix

• 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.

  Jimi Hendrix

• See, that’s nothing but blues, that’s all I’m singing about. It’s today’s blues.

  Jimi Hendrix

• My nature just changes.

  Jimi Hendrix

• It’s funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

  Jimi Hendrix

• If it was up to me, there wouldn’t be no such thing as the establishment.

  Jimi Hendrix

• If I’m free, it’s because I’m always running.

  Jimi Hendrix

• I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.

  Jimi Hendrix

• I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

  Jimi Hendrix

• I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

  Jimi Hendrix

• I don’t have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might’ve unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

  Jimi Hendrix

• Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.

  Jimi Hendrix

• All I’m gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

  Jimi Hendrix

• He’d been listening to black music all his life.

  Jimi Hendrix

• Yes, it was raggedy. Yes, it had its problems. Yes, he did some things that he probably felt afterwards it wasn’t a great idea to experiment onstage in front of a half-million people.

  Jimi Hendrix

• We started doing some stuff, just hooking up doing gigs. He got a little bit too far out from me. Stuff he was doing, I didn’t want to do.

  Jimi Hendrix

• We ran into each other in Ohio.

  Jimi Hendrix

• But I always told him, ‘When you start playing music you do something original.’ He sure did, and I was really proud of him for doing that.

  Jimi Hendrix

• I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

  Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix (64)

Birth:	27th November, 1942
Death:	18th September, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer

About

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was born in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was an American rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. He was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues.

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