110+ Jimi Hendrix Quotes On War, Peace And Rory Gallagher

Jimi Hendrix was an American musician, singer and songwriter from Seattle, Washington. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential guitarists in the history of rock music. His career spanned from the mid-1960s to his death in 1970 at the age of 27. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Jimi Hendrix on love, war, peace.

Top 10 Jimi Hendrix Quotes

1. Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
2. 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.
3. When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
4. Music is a safe kind of high.
5. Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
6. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
7. Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.
8. Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.
9. The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
10. Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

Jimi Hendrix Image Quotes

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. — Jimi Hendrix

Music is a safe kind of high. — Jimi Hendrix

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

Excuse me while I kiss the sky. — Jimi Hendrix

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. — Jimi Hendrix

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. — Jimi Hendrix

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

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked. — Jimi Hendrix

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel. — Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix Short Quotes

• Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
• Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
• It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.
• When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
• I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
• All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.
• Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.
• If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.
• May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.
• Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

Jimi Hendrix Quotes About Love

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. — Jimi Hendrix

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life. And how did Jimi Hendrix die? — Jimi Hendrix

The sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea. — Jimi Hendrix

You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. — Jimi Hendrix

The story of love is hello and goodbye... until we meet again. — Jimi Hendrix

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 — Jimi Hendrix

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. — Jimi Hendrix

I love Dylan. I only met him once, about three years ago, back at the Kettle of Fish on MacDougal Street. That was before I went to England. I think both of us were pretty drunk at the time, so he probably doesn’t remember it. — Jimi Hendrix

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

Happiness is within you... so unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow- like the sweet flower you are. I know the answer- just spread your wings and set yourself free. — Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix Quotes About War

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace. — Jimi Hendrix

In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music. — Jimi Hendrix

And it's no war games, because they all keep the same place. But like the solar system is going through a change soon and it's going to affect the Earth in about 30 years. — Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix Quotes About Life

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

A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life. — Jimi Hendrix

Let me live my life the way I want to. — Jimi Hendrix

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 — Jimi Hendrix

Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye — Jimi Hendrix

Once you're dead, you're made for life. — Jimi Hendrix

This is your life - you must die by yourself, so for heaven's sake, live for yourself and no one else. . . . — Jimi Hendrix

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. — Jimi Hendrix

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. — Jimi Hendrix

Music is Magic. Magic is Life — Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix Quotes About Guitar

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. — Jimi Hendrix

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. — Jimi Hendrix

Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion. — Jimi Hendrix

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. — Jimi Hendrix

.. 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 — Jimi Hendrix

The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one. — Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix Quotes About Music

Music is my religion. — Jimi Hendrix

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music. — Jimi Hendrix

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

I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy — Jimi Hendrix

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. — Jimi Hendrix

I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good... — Jimi Hendrix

Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you'll never hear surf music again. — Jimi Hendrix

I try to use my music to move these people to act. — Jimi Hendrix

My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don't get them together nobody else will. — Jimi Hendrix

There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable. — Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix Quotes About World

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. — Jimi Hendrix

Now if I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late, don't be late, cause I'm a voodoo chile. — Jimi Hendrix

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

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? — Jimi Hendrix

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

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 — Jimi Hendrix

I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space. — Jimi Hendrix

The world is nothing but a big gimmick. — Jimi Hendrix

In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it. — Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix Quotes About People

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. — Jimi Hendrix

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

You have to give people something to dream on. — Jimi Hendrix

It's really hard to know what people want around here sometimes. — Jimi Hendrix

It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going... they'll appreciate the music. — Jimi Hendrix

Sometimes the music people put you into these big, rush things. — Jimi Hendrix

Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out. — Jimi Hendrix

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. — Jimi Hendrix

The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool. — Jimi Hendrix

They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes — Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix Famous Quotes And Sayings

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. — Jimi Hendrix

Music is a safe kind of high. — Jimi Hendrix

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

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. — Jimi Hendrix

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. — Jimi Hendrix

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

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

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked. — Jimi Hendrix

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel. — Jimi Hendrix

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. — Jimi Hendrix

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? — Jimi Hendrix

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. — Jimi Hendrix

I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up. — Jimi Hendrix

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it. — Jimi Hendrix

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows. — Jimi Hendrix

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. — Jimi Hendrix

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

Oh say, can you see, it's really such a mess. Every inch of earth is a fighting nest. Giant pencial and lipstick tube shaped things, continue to rain and cause scream and pain, and the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red. — Jimi Hendrix

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

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. — Jimi Hendrix

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

I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time. — Jimi Hendrix

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

You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else. — Jimi Hendrix

With the power of soul, anything is possible. — Jimi Hendrix

... with Voodoo Child somebody was filming when we started doing that. We did that about three times because they wanted to film us in the studio, to make us (imitates a pompous voice) 'make it look like you're recording boys' - one of them scenes, you know, so okey, let's play this and then we went into Voodoo Child — Jimi Hendrix

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

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. — Jimi Hendrix

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

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

You're just like crosstown traffic, so hard to get through to you. — Jimi Hendrix

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. — Jimi Hendrix

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

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. — Jimi Hendrix

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

Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man. — Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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. — Jimi Hendrix

Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground. — Jimi Hendrix

Evil man make me kill you. — Jimi Hendrix

It's very far away, it takes about a half and a day to get there, if we travel by my... dragon-fly. No, it's not in Spain, but all the same, you know, it's a groovy name. And the wind's just right... Hang on, my darling, hang on if you wanna go. Hear it's a really groovy place, with just a little bit Spanish Castle Magic. — Jimi Hendrix

Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind. — Jimi Hendrix

Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine? — Jimi Hendrix

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. — Jimi Hendrix

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

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. — Jimi Hendrix

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan. — Jimi Hendrix

We have time, there's no big rush. — Jimi Hendrix

My nature just changes. — Jimi Hendrix

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

Never write a letter while you are angry. — Jimi Hendrix

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

Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for. — Jimi Hendrix

Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen. — Jimi Hendrix

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high. — Jimi Hendrix

We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking. — Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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. — Jimi Hendrix

Life Lessons by Jimi Hendrix

1. Jimi Hendrix taught us to never be afraid to take risks and be creative, to always stay true to yourself, and to never let anyone limit your potential.
2. He showed us that hard work and dedication can lead to success, even when the odds are against you.
3. He also showed us that it's important to stay humble and to always be open to learning new things, even if it means going outside of your comfort zone.