Top 180 Jimi Hendrix Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

52. “If I had anything to say I’d have a say to everybody.”

— Jimi Hendrix

53. “You know you are a sweet little heart breaker, foxy lady.”

— Jimi Hendrix

54. “I’m trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual’s way of thinking.”

— Jimi Hendrix

55. “Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.”

— Jimi Hendrix

56. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

57. “Never write a letter while you are angry.”

— Jimi Hendrix

58. “Of course war is horrible, but at present it’s still the only guarantee of peace.”

— Jimi Hendrix

59. “I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table.”

— Jimi Hendrix

60. “I’m gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.”

— Jimi Hendrix

61. “Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn’t full of danger.”

— Jimi Hendrix

62. “Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music.”

— Jimi Hendrix

63. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

64. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

65. “My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.”

— Jimi Hendrix

66. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

67. “The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.”

— Jimi Hendrix

68. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

69. “I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.”

— Jimi Hendrix

70. “Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway...”

— Jimi Hendrix

71. “Fall mountains, just don’t fall on me.”

— Jimi Hendrix

72. “The Telecaster has two sounds – a good one and a bad one.”

— Jimi Hendrix

73. “The night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red.”

— Jimi Hendrix

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

— Jimi Hendrix

75. “We gotta stop smokin’, stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking.”

— Jimi Hendrix

76. “Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine?”

— Jimi Hendrix

77. “The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall.”

— Jimi Hendrix

78. “You may almost forget the smell of your family.”

— Jimi Hendrix

79. “Don’t let your imagination take you by surprise.”

— Jimi Hendrix

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

— Jimi Hendrix

81. “I dig Strauss and Wagner. Those cats are good.”

— Jimi Hendrix

82. “See, that’s nothing but blues, that’s all I’m singing about. It’s today’s blues.”

— Jimi Hendrix

83. “Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.”

— Jimi Hendrix

84. “The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.”

— Jimi Hendrix

85. “If it was up to me, there wouldn’t be no such thing as the establishment.”

— Jimi Hendrix

86. “Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.”

— Jimi Hendrix

87. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

88. “Genealogists live in the past lane.”

— Jimi Hendrix

89. “There’s a lot of political things happening out there that I’d really have to get away from.”

— Jimi Hendrix

90. “Sometimes the music people put you into these big, rush things.”

— Jimi Hendrix

91. “It’s not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.”

— Jimi Hendrix

92. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

93. “There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.”

— Jimi Hendrix

94. “Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.”

— Jimi Hendrix

95. “If my baby don’t love me no more, I know her sister will.”

— Jimi Hendrix

96. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

97. “Kenny Burrell that’s the sound I’m looking for.”

— Jimi Hendrix

98. “This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child’s sunrise.”

— Jimi Hendrix

99. “Don’t use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.”

— Jimi Hendrix

100. “Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over.”

— Jimi Hendrix