Hendrix Quotes

You're the one who was just voted the third-worst mayor for Time magazine, not Hendrix. - Kwame Kilpatrick

You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that. - Jon Bon Jovi

You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around. - Stevie Ray Vaughan

You know I got kicked out of high school and I used to go to Hendrix concerts. I used to go see Marvin Gaye and B.B. King and so here I am on television as an actor playing the part of this really sweet wholesome all American boy. The reality was I had a much different kind of teenage life. - David Cassidy

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

You have to give people something to dream on. - 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. - Jimi Hendrix

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. - Jimi Hendrix

You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints. - Carlos Santana

Yes, it was raggedy. Yes, it had its problems. Yes, he did some things that he probably felt afterwards it wasn't a great idea to experiment onstage in front of a half-million people. - Jimi Hendrix