Jimi Hendrix Quotes

Hell to Heaven
Heaven to Hell
Please send
Devil or Angel
To love me now.

To Hell with Heaven
To Heaven with Hell.
Unless you send me somebody to love...the truth of you both I'm gonna tell.

Oh, love is nice if it's understood,
It's even nicer when you're feeling good.
You got me flipping like a flag on a pole,
Come on, sugar, let the good times roll.

I try all night to play a pretty note.

White collar conservative flashin' down the street, Pointing that plastic finger at me, Hoping soon my kind will drop and die, But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

Start with a shovel, wind up with a spoon.

She has the devil in her eye
And holds an angel in her heart.
She'll get you wrapped around her little finger
And tear your mind a million miles apart.
Her kiss is a cup of sunshine.

I don't really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me. I know a whole lot of musicians, artists out there who hears the compliments and thinks "wow, I must have been really great" and so they get fat and satisfied and they get lost and forget about their actual talent and start living in another world.

There's so many tight-lipped ideas and laws around, and people put themselves in uniforms so tightly, that it's almost impossible to break out of that. Subconsciously, what these people are doing, they're killin' off all these little flashes they have, cutting off the idea of wanting to understand. They forgot, didn't believe, or just snuffed the feelings or thoughts off to continue with their crazy soul. They don't have the patience to really check out what's happenin' through music, theater and science. It’s like a spaceship. If a spaceship came down and you know nothin’ about it, the first thing you’re going to think about is shooting it. In other words, you get negative in the first place, which is not really the natural way of thinking. It’s like shooting at a flying saucer as it tries to land without giving the occupants a chance to identify themselves.

I taste the honey from a flower named Blue
Way down in California
And New York drowns as we held hands

Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts.

Even castles made of sand,
fall into the sea,
eventually.

Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye

those times i burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. we all burn things we love. i love my guitar

We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... 'Cause there are so many sleeping people.

Gimmicks? Here we go again. I'm tired of people sayin' we rely on gimmicks. What is this? The world is nothin' but a big gimmick isn't it? Wars, napalm bombs and all that. People being burned-up on TV...Yes, we do.