Jimi Hendrix Quotes - Page 4

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

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

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

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

I try to get up every day.

I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.

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.

I found myself in too much of a box situation.

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

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.

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

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.

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

It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.

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.

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

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

The night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red.

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

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

The truth is straight ahead, so don't burn yourself instead.

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

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

... 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

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