"You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else."
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Jimi Hendrix quotes (page 5 of 11)
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"You're just like crosstown traffic, so hard to get through to you."
"Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand"
"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."
"She's a devil in disguise, I can tell by looking in her eyes, little Miss Strange."
"May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow."
"The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall."
"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."
"I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past."
"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 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."
"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."
"This is your life - you must die by yourself, so for heaven's sake, live for yourself and no one else. . . ."
"You know you are a sweet little heart breaker, foxy lady."
"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."
"Well, obviously religion must come from inside."
"I'll always touch you."
"Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway."
"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."
"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."