40 Jimi Hendrix Quotes About Life, Love, and Music

1. "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

2. "The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye."

3. "In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first."

4. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

5. "May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future."

6. “Excuse me while I kiss the sky.”

7. “Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.”

8. “I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.”

9. “And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.”

10. “Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. ”

11. “Those times I burned my guitar, it was like a sacrifice. We all burn things we love. I love my guitar.”

12. "Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded."

13. "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."

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

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

16. "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."

17. "It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life."

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

19. "Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel."

20. "If I'm free, it's because I'm always running."

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

22. "All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland."

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

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

25. "When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."

26. "When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears."

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

28. "We have time, there's no big rush."

29. "To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?"

30. "I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something."

31. "My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art."

32. "I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it."

33. "You have to give people something to dream on."

34. "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."

35. "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."

36. "Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music."

37. "When I die, just keep playing the records."

38. “Don’t raise me up, I am but a messenger.”

39. “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.”

40. “Technically, I’m not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.”