Quotes from Jimi Hendrix

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

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.

Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.

The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.

A lot of ppl are making more money than they ever had nowadays - so when they get their flat they can, they always find themselves with an extra room.

I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table.

This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise.

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

Music is Magic. Magic is Life

Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.

Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.

Good and evil lay side by side.

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

Anyway, you know good and well it would be beyond the will of God, and the grace of the King

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.

I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is achin', my back is breakin', feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover.

Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.

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

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.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.