Top 180 Jimi Hendrix Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Music is religion for me. There’ll be music in the hereafter, too.”

— Jimi Hendrix

102. “Rock is so much fun. That’s what it’s all about – filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.”

— Jimi Hendrix

103. “You know I’ll kiss you for my supper. Yeah, you know I’ll kiss you for my dinner, baby.”

— Jimi Hendrix

104. “You got me sitting on the shelf, while you’re out bewitching someone else.”

— Jimi Hendrix

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

— Jimi Hendrix

106. “I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.”

— Jimi Hendrix

107. “The one that rambles for a million miles, yes, I walk down this road searching for your love.”

— Jimi Hendrix

108. “Is this love, baby, or is this just confusion?”

— Jimi Hendrix

109. “I wanted to be listened to. I don’t know if they were or not, though.”

— Jimi Hendrix

110. “My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don’t get them together nobody else will.”

— Jimi Hendrix

111. “If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.”

— Jimi Hendrix

112. “I found myself in too much of a box situation.”

— Jimi Hendrix

113. “I try to use my music to move these people to act.”

— Jimi Hendrix

114. “You’ve got to know what goes between the notes.”

— Jimi Hendrix

115. “If 6 turned out to be 9, I don’t mind.”

— Jimi Hendrix

116. “Jesus shouldn’t have died so early and then he could have got twice as much across. They killed him and then twisted so many of the best things he said. Human hands started messing it all up and now so much of religion is hogwash.”

— Jimi Hendrix

117. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

118. “There’ll be no smoking in the gas chamber.”

— Jimi Hendrix

119. “I’ll always touch you.”

— Jimi Hendrix

120. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

121. “I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage.”

— Jimi Hendrix

122. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

123. “Room Full Of Mirrors, that’s more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.”

— Jimi Hendrix

124. “Once you’re dead, you’re made for life.”

— Jimi Hendrix

125. “I have to get involved in my own kind of way ’cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time.”

— Jimi Hendrix

126. “Well, obviously religion must come from inside.”

— Jimi Hendrix

127. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

128. “She’s a devil in disguise, I can tell by looking in her eyes, little Miss Strange.”

— Jimi Hendrix

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

— Jimi Hendrix

130. “Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.”

— Jimi Hendrix

131. “Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.”

— Jimi Hendrix

132. “I’m a million miles away, and at the same time I’m right here in your picture frame.”

— Jimi Hendrix

133. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

134. “Oh say, can you see, it’s really such a mess. Every inch of earth is a fighting nest. Giant pencial and lipstick tube shaped things, continue to rain and cause scream and pain, and the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red.”

— Jimi Hendrix

135. “Telephone message on his manager’s answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.”

— Jimi Hendrix

136. “When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.”

— Jimi Hendrix

137. “Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you’ll never hear surf music again.”

— Jimi Hendrix

138. “I think everybody should believe in himself. I suppose, in a way, that’s also believing in God. If there is a God and He made you, then believing in yourself is also believing in Him. Once you carry God inside yourself, then you’re part of Him.”

— Jimi Hendrix

139. “Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I’m going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.”

— Jimi Hendrix

140. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

141. “Well, she’s walking through the clouds, with a circus mind that’s running wild.”

— Jimi Hendrix

142. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

143. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

144. “After awhile, your, your cheap talk don’t even cause me pain, so let your bullets fly like rain.”

— Jimi Hendrix

145. “Anyway, you know good and well it would be beyond the will of God, and the grace of the King.”

— Jimi Hendrix

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

— Jimi Hendrix

147. “Evil man make me kill you.”

— Jimi Hendrix

148. “I’m up here in this womb, I’m looking all around. We’ll, I’m looking out my belly button window and I see a whole lot of frowns.”

— Jimi Hendrix

149. “Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.”

— Jimi Hendrix

150. “I try all night to play a pretty note.”

— Jimi Hendrix