Jimi Hendrix Quotes

• You can’t mess with people’s heads, that’s for sure. But that’s what music’s all about, messing with people’s heads.

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• Purple haze is in my brain Lately things don’t seem the same.

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• Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.

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• The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye…until we meet again.

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• 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.

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• I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

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• You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

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• I am the one that has got to die when it is time for me to die, so let me live my life the way i want to.

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• When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

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• You have to give people something to dream on.

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• You don’t have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don’t have to keep flashing those words all the time.

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• When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they’re not gonna see nothin’ but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.

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• When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I’d go on and try to get it together.

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• We have time, there’s no big rush.

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• 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?

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

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• 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.

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

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• My nature just changes.

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• Music is a safe kind of high.

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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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