Top 180 Jimi Hendrix Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “The truth is straight ahead, so don’t burn yourself instead.”

— Jimi Hendrix

152. “My nature just changes.”

— Jimi Hendrix

153. “Hey motor cycle mama, you gonna marry me?”

— Jimi Hendrix

154. “Freaks, they are very prejudiced. You have to have your hair long and talk in a certain way in order to be with them. In order to be the other way you have to have your hair short and wear ties.”

— Jimi Hendrix

155. “In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.”

— Jimi Hendrix

156. “Now if 6 turned out to be 9, I don’t mind, I don’t mind.”

— Jimi Hendrix

157. “You have to give people something to dream on.”

— Jimi Hendrix

158. “It’s funny how most people love the dead, once you’re dead your made for life.”

— Jimi Hendrix

159. “I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.”

— Jimi Hendrix

160. “And it’s no war games, because they all keep the same place. But like the solar system is going through a change soon and it’s going to affect the Earth in about 30 years.”

— Jimi Hendrix

161. “A girl asked me if she could comb my hair. Nobody can comb my hair, I can’t even comb my hair.”

— Jimi Hendrix

162. “A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he’s singing about.”

— Jimi Hendrix

163. “I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.”

— Jimi Hendrix

164. “Really I’m just an actor. The only difference between me and those cats in Hollywood is that I write my own script.”

— Jimi Hendrix

165. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

166. “I try to get up every day.”

— Jimi Hendrix

167. “So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain’t that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.”

— Jimi Hendrix

168. “Spiritually, it’s always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I’ll just finally release all that out.”

— Jimi Hendrix

169. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

170. “Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan didn’t always do it for me as a singer, not in the early days, but then I started listening to the lyrics. That sold me.”

— Jimi Hendrix

171. “You have to be a freak in order to be different.”

— Jimi Hendrix

172. “We take our last look at the killing noise.”

— Jimi Hendrix

173. “Promotion with my name only, that’s all I have to do with it.”

— Jimi Hendrix

174. “Anybody can do anything, it’s up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.”

— Jimi Hendrix

175. “You’re just like crosstown traffic, so hard to get through to you.”

— Jimi Hendrix

176. “The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That’s cool.”

— Jimi Hendrix

177. “I think it would count more, if we did less personal appearances.”

— Jimi Hendrix

178. “You got your God and so do I.”

— Jimi Hendrix

179. “I use to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me.”

— Jimi Hendrix

180. “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.”

— Jimi Hendrix

181. “It’s really hard to know what people want around here sometimes.”

— Jimi Hendrix

182. “Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out.”

— Jimi Hendrix

183. “People still mourn when people die. That’s self-sympathy. All human beings are selfish to a certain extent, and that’s why people get so sad when someone dies. They haven’t finished using him. The person who is dead ain’t crying. Sadness is for when a baby is born into this heavy world, and joy should be exhibited at someone’s death because they are going on to something more permanent and infinitely better.”

— Jimi Hendrix

184. “You’re a woman, at least you taste like you are.”

— Jimi Hendrix

185. “Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening.”

— Jimi Hendrix

186. “Say hello to my mother and father... the Earth and Space.”

— Jimi Hendrix

187. “Well, I see black and white and red and yellow, even green – getting together. And their weapons are shining clean – but I’m not talking about swords, knives, and guns. I’m talking about the power of God and the new rising sun.”

— Jimi Hendrix

188. “You’ve got to dig everything and then get your own ideas. Too much digging and not enough doing will set you spinning.”

— Jimi Hendrix