Jimi Hendrix

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

— 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…

— Jimi Hendrix

We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in…

— Jimi Hendrix

White collar conservative flashin' down the street, Pointing that plastic finger at me, Hoping soon my kind will drop and die, But…

— Jimi Hendrix

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

— 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…

— Jimi Hendrix

Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its…

— 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…

— Jimi Hendrix

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

— 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…

— 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

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third…

— 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…

— 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

After awhile, your, your cheap talk don't even cause me pain, so let your bullets fly like rain.

— Jimi Hendrix

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Jimi Hendrix

Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of…

— Jimi Hendrix

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as…

— Jimi Hendrix

It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.

— Jimi Hendrix

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

— 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…

— Jimi Hendrix

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

— Jimi Hendrix

“Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.”

— Jimi Hendrix

Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep…

— Jimi Hendrix

In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can…

— 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…

— 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…

— Jimi Hendrix

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I…

— Jimi Hendrix

A girl asked me if she could comb my hair. Nobody can comb my hair, I can’t even comb my hair.

— 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 wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been…

— Jimi Hendrix

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

— Jimi Hendrix

With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that.

— Jimi Hendrix

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and…

— Jimi Hendrix