A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.
After a while I started getting aware too much of what was going down. It started to bring me down a little bit.
All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.
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.
All they did was let me do what I wanted to do, one of them kind of scenes.
Are these all psychedelic? I don't even know what that word means, really.
Astro Man says something about living in peace of mind. Well, Astro Man will leave you in piece.
Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.
Everybody goes through those stages the first time around, and you'd wear all these different things.
Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
Festivals shouldn't worry about getting so many people. It's a big ego trip now. They didn't do all that kind of mess with Monterey.
I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage.
I can't feel anything right now because there's a few things that's just happened. I just have to lay back and think about it all.
I didn't know it was anger until they told me that it was, you know, with the destruction and all that.
I didn't think too much of the hype scene and all that because I dug wearin' all those different things. It was fun.
I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
I found myself in too much of a box situation.
I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.
I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.
I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
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.
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.
I just started cutting my hair, rings disappearing one by one.
I think it would count more, if we did less personal appearances.
I try to use my music to move these people to act.
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.
I wanted to be listened to. I don't know if they were or not, though.
I was just playing loud. They let it bother them, they wouldn't even be around today.
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 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 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'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
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.
I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
If I had anything to say I'd have a say to everybody.
If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.
If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
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.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
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.
It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.
It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.
It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.
It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.
It's really hard to know what people want around here sometimes.
It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going... they'll appreciate the music.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Music is a safe kind of high.
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.
Music is my religion.
Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
My nature just changes.
Once you're dead you're made for life.
Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it.
Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.
Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.
See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out.
Sometimes the music people put you into these big, rush things.
Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.
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.
The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.
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.
The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
The way things been goin' lately, I think it's gonna take a lot more time.
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.
There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.
They should have not only music, but theatre and selling things, and circuses.
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?
We have time, there's no big rush.
We should only collect enough as where we can pay the expenses from the last town to the next town.
We're tryin' to get a tour of England together now, that's definitely gonna call for another bass player.
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
When I die, just keep playing the records.
When I finally do get into it, the whole world's gonna know about it.
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.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
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.
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.
With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that.
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.
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.
You have to give people something to dream on.
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
Jimi Hendrix's 1967 album Axis: Bold As Love was ranked #78 on VH1's 100 Greatest Albums.
Jimi Hendrix's 1967 album Are You Experienced was ranked #5 on VH1's 100 Greatest Albums.
Jimi Hendrix's 1967 song "Purple Haze" was ranked #25 on VH1's 100 Greatest Rock Songs.
Jimi first tried marijuana when he was 15.
Jimi was ranked number 1 on rock.com's top 100 guitarists of all time.
Jimi was ranked number 5 on rock.com's top hard rock artists of all time.
Jimi's first guitar was a white Supro Ozark that his dad had bought him.
Jimi had said that Little Richard inspired him to become a musician.
"Hey Joe" was ranked number 135 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.
Jimi's best selling album is "Are You Experienced?"
"Purple Haze" was ranked number 17 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.
He was 5 feet, 11 inches tall. (1.80 m)
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6627 Hollywood Blvd.
Jimi Hendrix pretended he was gay to avoid being drafted to war. That is why his sexuality is a matter of dispute.
Jimi claims that his music is called electric church music because he claims music is a religion.
Jimi enlisted into the Army on May 31st and served for exactly one year.
Jimi was 9 when his parents got divorced.
Jimi Hendrix died by choking on his own vomit.
Jimi had brown eyes.
Jimi had four different names: Johny Allen Hendrix, James Marshall Hendrix, Jimmy Hendrix and Jimi Hendrix. He also had two aliases: Maurice James and Jimmy James.
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