Jimi Hendrix Quotes

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

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• It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• We ran into each other in Ohio.

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• 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.

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

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• I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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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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