99 Inspiring Quotes by Jimi Hendrix

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

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

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

You have to give people something to dream on.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

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

Music is a safe kind of high.

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

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

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

When I die, just keep playing the records.

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

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

Music is my religion.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

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

Who are you to judge the life i live
i know i'm not perfect and i don't live to be.
but before you start pointing fingers
make sure your hands are clean.

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

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

Let me live my life the way I want to.

Say hello to my mother and father...the Earth and Space.

Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?

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

With the power of soul, anything is possible.

Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.

Good and evil lay side by side.

Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last.

Have you ever been experienced? Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.

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.

The world is nothing but a big gimmick.

Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.

I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table.

Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You got me blowin', blowin' my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

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.

The sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea.

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.

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.

Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.

Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.

So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.

The one that rambles for a million miles, yes, I walk down this road searching for your love.

Jesus shouldn't have died so early and then he could have got twice as much across. They killed him and then twisted so many of the best things he said. Human hands started messing it all up and now so much of religion is hogwash.

Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.

Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.

the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players.

You know you are a sweet little heart breaker, foxy lady.

Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

Is this love, baby, or is this just confusion?

One time I said: maybe I should burn a guitar tonight. You know smash a guitar or something like that. And they said: yeah, yeah! I said: you really think I should? They said: yeah, that'd be cool. I said: well, ok.

I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time... I'll give it right back to you, one of these days.

Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love.

I have lived here before the days of ice, of course this is why I am so concerned, and I come back to find the stars misplaced and the smell of a world that has burned.
So where do I purchase my ticket...I'd like to have a ringside seat. I want to know about the new Mother Earth. I want to hear and see EVERYTHING.

I'm a million miles away, and at the same time I'm right here in your picture frame.

The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.

I think it would count more, if we did less personal appearances.

There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber.

Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..I might as well go back over yonder, way back across the hills, if my baby dont love me no more....i know her...sister will.

If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind. If all the hippies cut off their hair, I don't care, I don't care. Did, 'cos I got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you.

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.

She's a devil in disguise, I can tell by looking in her eyes, little Miss Strange.

Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.

You're not the only one accused of hit and run. Tire tracks all across my back, well I can see you've had your fun.

Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.

When I'm sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles.

The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall.

We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking.

Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things.

I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is achin', my back is breakin', feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover.

Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.

You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That's how it can bend.

The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend.

I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good.

Freaks, they are very prejudiced. You have to have your hair long and talk in a certain way in order to be with them. In order to be the other way you have to have your hair short and wear ties.

Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.

Manic depression is a frustratin' mess.

I use to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me.

If my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will.

Don't raise me up, I am but a messenger.

I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.

Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand.

There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.

Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn't full of danger.

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.

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

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

I don't give a damn what others say. It's okay to color outside of the lines.

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