Best Jimi Hendrix Quotes

Jimi Hendrix Quotes About Peace, Love, Career, Goals, Keep Going, Death, Music, Life, War, Knowledge, The Power of Love, & Guitar! Electric guitar player Jimi Hendrix, one of the most explosive and influential artists of the twentieth century, had a unique way of engaging the crowd. He was born on November 17, 1942. Their father raised Jimi and Leon Hendrix after their mother’s frequent drinking led to their parent’s divorce. For as long as Jimi Hendrix could remember, Al Hendrix had been aware of his son’s love of music, which led him to spend countless hours “playing” on an old broom to get the guitar’s sound. Jimi began learning to play the guitar when his father Al finally got him a genuine one.

Electric blues and rock’n’roll were significant influences on Hendrix throughout his early career. Overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain were his favourite, and he was vital in popularizing the hitherto unappealing sounds created by feedback. Moreover, he was one of the first guitarists infamous rock to make heavy use of tone-altering effects units, including fuzz distortion, Octavia, wah-wah, and Uni-Vibe. First, he pioneered the use of stereophonic phasing in recordings. According to Rolling Stone’s Holly George-Warren, Hendrix was the first to employ an instrument as an electronic music source. In his lifetime, Jimi Hendrix was awarded several music prizes.

In 1969, Disc and Music Echo voted him the World’s Top Musician, and in 1970, Guitar Player awarded him the Rock Guitarist of the Year for his work with the Rolling Stones. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was elected into both the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Musical Hall of Fame in 2005. He died away on September 18, 1970. Jimi Hendrix wrote and recorded a remarkable number of songs that took his place in rock history and continue to inspire musicians today.

Best Jimi Hendrix Quotes

1. “When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix

2. “You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.” – Jimi Hendrix

3. “Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.” – Jimi Hendrix

4. “Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’re gonna be rewarded.” – Jimi Hendrix

5. “In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.” – Jimi Hendrix

6. “I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” – Jimi Hendrix

7. “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix

8. “Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening.” – Jimi Hendrix

9. “Peace, Love, and Happiness.” – Jimi Hendrix

10. “The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye. The story of love is Hello and Goodbye.” – Jimi Hendrix

11. “Music is a safe kind of high.” – Jimi Hendrix

12. “If I’m free, it’s because I’m always running.” – Jimi Hendrix

13. “It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.” – Jimi Hendrix

14. “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.” – Jimi Hendrix

15. “I try to use my music to move these people to act.” – Jimi Hendrix

16. “Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.” – Jimi Hendrix

17. “Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.” – Jimi Hendrix

18. “Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it’s an art of words… Meaning nothing.” – Jimi Hendrix

19. “We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds… ‘Cause there are so many sleeping people.” – Jimi Hendrix

20. “Who are you to judge the life I live. I know I’m not perfect and I don’t live to be. But before you start pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean.” – Jimi Hendrix

21. “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

22. “I will be dead in five years’ time, but while I am here, I will travel many highways and I will, of necessity, die at a time when my message of love, peace, and freedom can be shared with people all over the world.” – Jimi Hendrix

23. “I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up.” – Jimi Hendrix

24. “A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday’s life.” – Jimi Hendrix

25. “The night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red.” – Jimi Hendrix

26. “White collared conservatives, flashing down the street, pointing their plastic fingers at me. They’re hoping soon my kind will drop and die, but I’m gonna wave my freak flag high.” – Jimi Hendrix

27. “Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.” – Jimi Hendrix

28. “I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.” – Jimi Hendrix

29. “Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.” – Jimi Hendrix

30. “Music is my religion.” – Jimi Hendrix

31. “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

32. “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.” – Jimi Hendrix

33. “When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.” – Jimi Hendrix

34. “You have to give people something to dream on.” – Jimi Hendrix

35. “Music is the most important thing. I’m thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space.” – Jimi Hendrix