Jimi Hendrix quotes page 1

1942-1970, American singer-songwriter

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

Music is a safe kind of high.
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I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
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I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt
somebody else or something.
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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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If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.
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Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about man.
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When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
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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.
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Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
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Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.
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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.
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In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
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Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
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We plan for our sound to go inside the soul of somebody.
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Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it could only
happen through music.
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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.
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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.
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Life is quicker than a blink of an eye.
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I don't really live on compliments. Matter of fact, it has a way of distracting me.
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You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
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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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It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.
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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.
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Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with
yours.
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I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
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