Jimi Hendrix

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

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

When I die, just keep playing the records.

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

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

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

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

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.

My nature just changes.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

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.

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?

If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.

See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.

We have time, there's no big rush.