Jimi Hendrix Quotes

• Music is the most important thing. I’m thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space.

  Jimi Hendrix

• A broom is drearily sweeping, up the broken peices of yesterdays life. Somewhere a queen is weeping, Somewhere a king has no wife, And the wind cries Mary.

  Jimi Hendrix

• When I die, just keep playing the records.

  Jimi Hendrix

• Rock is so much fun. That’s what it’s all about – filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

  Jimi Hendrix

• My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

  Jimi Hendrix

• Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

  Jimi Hendrix

• Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music.

  Jimi Hendrix

• I try to use my music to move these people to act.

  Jimi Hendrix

• When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

  Jimi Hendrix

• Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’re gonna be rewarded.

  Jimi Hendrix

• I wish they’d had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would’ve been straightened out.

  Jimi Hendrix

• Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

  Jimi Hendrix

• And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.

  Jimi Hendrix

• 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

• White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I’m gonna wave my freak flag high.

  Jimi Hendrix

• Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

  Jimi Hendrix

• You have to forget about what other people say, when you’re supposed to die, or when you’re supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.

  Jimi Hendrix

• I’m gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

  Jimi Hendrix

• When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

  Jimi Hendrix

• Music is my religion.

  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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