Jimi Hendrix Quotes

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Jimi Hendrix

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 27, 1942

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

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I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

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Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.

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The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

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You have to give people something to dream on.

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I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

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I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

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It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.

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We have time, there's no big rush.

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When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

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When I die, just keep playing the records.

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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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If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.

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It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

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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.

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My nature just changes.

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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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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.

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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.

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See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.

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