Jimi Hendrix
Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.Collection: Hands
May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.Collection: Wise
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.Collection: Inspirational
Happiness is within you... so unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow- like the sweet flower you are. I know the answer- just spread your wings and set yourself free.Collection: Sweet
Music is Magic. Magic is LifeCollection: Music
Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.Collection: Music
Knowledge is speaking, wisdom is listeningCollection: Listening
Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things.Collection: Waste
I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter. You've got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you've got to know what goes between the notes.Collection: Mean
Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.Collection: Music
Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.Collection: Music
This is your life - you must die by yourself, so for heaven's sake, live for yourself and no one else. . . .Collection: Heaven
I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.Collection: Wise
With the power of soul, anything is possible.Collection: Religious
.. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar playersCollection: Music
There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.Collection: Political
Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for.Collection: Sound
Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.Collection: Men
It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.Collection: Travel
It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going... they'll appreciate the music.Collection: People
There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.Collection: Talking
Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out.Collection: Ideas
Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its spaceCollection: Music
With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that.Collection: Government
Never write a letter while you are angry.Collection: Wise
I didn't know it was anger until they told me that it was, like with destruction and all that. But I believe everybody should have like a room where they can get rid of all their releases, where they can do their releases at. So my room is a stage.Collection: Believe
I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.Collection: Reality
I wanted to be listened to. I don't know if they were or not, though.Collection: Wanted
You may almost forget the smell of your family.Collection: Family
I think it would count more, if we did less personal appearances.Collection: Thinking
Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine?Collection: Land
It's really hard to know what people want around here sometimes.Collection: People
Manic depression is a frustratin' mess.Collection: Insanity
I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.Collection: Song
Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.Collection: Music Is
.. I get more of a dreamy thing from the audience - it's more of a thing that you go up into. You get into such a pitch sometimes that you go up into another thing. You don't forget about the audience, but you forget about all the paranoia, that thing where you're saying, 'Oh gosh, I'm on stage - what am I going to do now ?' - Then you go into this other thing, and it turns out to be like almost like a play in certain waysCollection: Music
A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.Collection: Sadness
Good and evil lay side by side.Collection: Philosophy
If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind. If all the hippies cut off their hair, I don't care, I don't care. Did, 'cos I got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you.Collection: Hippie
Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.Collection: War
If I had anything to say I'd have a say to everybody.Collection: Ifs
Evil man make me kill you.Collection: Men
If 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind.Collection: Mind
I'm up here in this womb, I'm looking all around. We'll, I'm looking out my belly button window and I see a whole lot of frowns.Collection: Family
Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.Collection: Music
I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.Collection: Music
I use to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me.Collection: Mirrors
The night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red.Collection: Family
Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last.Collection: Past