Jimi Hendrix quotes

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

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again.
- Jimi Hendrix

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
- Jimi Hendrix

Don’t use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.
- Jimi Hendrix

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 go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
- Jimi Hendrix

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.
- Jimi Hendrix

Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
- Jimi Hendrix

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
- Jimi Hendrix

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.
- Jimi Hendrix

Don’t raise me up, I am but a messenger.
- Jimi Hendrix

Music is my religion.
- Jimi Hendrix

I felt maybe too many people were coming to see me and not enough to listen to me. My nature changed as well.
- Jimi Hendrix

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
- Jimi Hendrix

What I have to say, I say with my guitar.
- Jimi Hendrix

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.
- Jimi Hendrix

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

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
- Jimi Hendrix

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
- Jimi Hendrix

If I’m free, it’s because I’m always running.
- Jimi Hendrix

I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.
- Jimi Hendrix

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
- Jimi Hendrix