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

- Jimi Hendrix

Music is my religion.

- Jimi Hendrix

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.

- Jimi Hendrix

When I die, just keep playing the records.

- Jimi Hendrix

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

- Jimi Hendrix

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

- Jimi Hendrix

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

My nature just changes.

- Jimi Hendrix

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

- Jimi Hendrix

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

- Jimi Hendrix

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

- Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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

- Jimi Hendrix

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

- Jimi Hendrix

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

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

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

- Jimi Hendrix

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

- Jimi Hendrix

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

- Jimi Hendrix