Jimi Hendrix Quotes About Music
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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
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The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.
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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 happy
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Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.
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I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.
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.. 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 ways
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Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
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My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don't get them together nobody else will.
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Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
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Music is my religion.
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.. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players
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Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.
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You have to give people something to dream on.
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Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
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I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
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Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.
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I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
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Have you ever been experienced? Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.
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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.
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I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good...
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I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.
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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 space
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Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.
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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.
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We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking.
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I try to use my music to move these people to act.
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My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
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Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes ... you play your gig; it's the same thing as the olden days, and these beautiful girls come around.. you do actually fall in love with them because that's the only love you can have. It's not always the physical thing of "Oh, there's one over there ...", it's not one of those scenes. They actually tell you something. They release different things inside themselves ... "Little Wing" was a very sweet girl that came around that gave me her whole life and more if I wanted it.
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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.
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Music is a safe kind of high.
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