Jimi Hendrix

Musician, Guitarist

Jimi Hendrix was a groundbreaking guitarist and singer-songwriter known for his innovative approach to rock music and powerful themes of freedom.

Born
November 27, 1942
Died
September 18, 1970
Quotes
208
Rank
#475

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

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

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"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."

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

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"May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow."

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"The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall."

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

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"I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past."

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"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"

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"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."

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"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."

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

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"You know you are a sweet little heart breaker, foxy lady."

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"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."

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"Well, obviously religion must come from inside."

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"I'll always touch you."

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

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"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."

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"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."

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