Jimi Hendrix Quotes

It's all about tones.This is very important to remember: It's all about tones. You hear the sound in your head or your heart, and you send a message to your fingers. That's my technique. On a good night, it works.

People still mourn when people die. That’s self-sympathy. All human beings are selfish to a certain extent, and that’s why people get so sad when someone dies. They haven’t finished using him. The person who is dead ain’t crying. Sadness is for when a baby is born into this heavy world, and joy should be exhibited at someone’s death because they are going on to something more permanent and infinitely better.

Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye

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

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

I try to get up every day.

Purple haze, all in my brain Lately things just don't seem the same, Acting funny, but I don't know why, 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

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.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, there will be peace.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors, All I could see was me. Then I take my spirit and I smash my mirrors, And now the whole world is here for me to see, Now I'm searching for my love to be.

The world's a T.V.
and hang-ups
are commercials.

Technically, I'm not even a guitar player. All I play is truth and emotion.

Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway...

I see arms and hands and tear-stained faces...
Reaching up but not quite touching the promised land...
I hear pleas and prayers and desperate graces,
Saying Oh Lord, please give us a helping hand...

Music is a safe kind of high.