Jimi Hendrix
I love Dylan. I only met him once, about three years ago, back at the Kettle of Fish on MacDougal Street. That was before I went to England. I think both of us were pretty drunk at the time, so he probably doesn’t remember it.Collection: Thinking
So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.Collection: Baby
I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happyCollection: Music
Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..I might as well go back over yonder, way back across the hills, if my baby dont love me no more....i know her...sister willCollection: Baby
One time I said: maybe I should burn a guitar tonight. You know smash a guitar or something like that. And they said: yeah, yeah! I said: you really think I should? They said: yeah, that'd be cool. I said: well, ok.Collection: Thinking
Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.Collection: Get Better
Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.Collection: Zebras
The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend.Collection: Writing
Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway.Collection: Sorry
Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind.Collection: Mind
The sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea.Collection: Love
I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage.Collection: Believe
If my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will.Collection: Baby
We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking.Collection: Mean
You're just like crosstown traffic, so hard to get through to you.Collection: Relationship
This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise.Collection: Morning
The truth is straight ahead, so don't burn yourself instead.Collection: Philosophy
Have you ever been experienced? Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
After awhile, your, your cheap talk don't even cause me pain, so let your bullets fly like rain.Collection: Relationship
I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good...Collection: Music
Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.Collection: Hippie
Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.Collection: Depression
Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you'll never hear surf music again.Collection: People
Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan didn’t always do it for me as a singer, not in the early days, but then I started listening to the lyrics. That sold me.Collection: Song
Hey motor cycle mama, you gonna marry me?Collection: Quality
Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it.Collection: Names
And it's no war games, because they all keep the same place. But like the solar system is going through a change soon and it's going to affect the Earth in about 30 years.Collection: War
Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Rooms
If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you.Collection: Ideas
Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.Collection: Family
We take our last look at the killing noise.Collection: Art
There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber.Collection: Smoking
Is this love, baby, or is this just confusion?Collection: Baby
It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.Collection: Movement
In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.Collection: Country
Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an EyeCollection: Eye
You're not the only one accused of hit and run. Tire tracks all across my back, well I can see you've had your fun.Collection: Running
A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.Collection: Order
Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.Collection: Wine
Once you're dead, you're made for life.Collection: Death
Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.Collection: Evil
In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.Collection: Order
Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over.Collection: Moving
You got your God and so do I.Collection: Religious
It's very far away, it takes about a half and a day to get there, if we travel by my... dragon-fly. No, it's not in Spain, but all the same, you know, it's a groovy name. And the wind's just right... Hang on, my darling, hang on if you wanna go. Hear it's a really groovy place, with just a little bit Spanish Castle Magic.Collection: Travel
Fall mountains, just don't fall on me.Collection: Fall
I try to get up every day.Collection: Trying