Jimi Hendrix Zitate

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

“Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye”

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

“But first, are you experienced?
Uh-have you ever been experienced? Well, I have”

“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.”

“I'm a Voodoo Child, Voodoo Child,
Lord knows I am a Voodoo Child”

“Listen here, baby
And stop acting so crazy
You say your mum ain't home,
it ain't my concern,
Just play with me and you won't get burned.
I have only one itching desire:
Let me stand next to your fire.”

“Waterfall, nothing can harm me at all
My worries seem so very small
With my waterfall.”

“You're just like crosstown traffic
So hard to get through to you.
Crosstown traffic.
I don't need to run over you.
Crosstown traffic.
All you do is slow me down.
And I'm tryin' to get on the other side of town.”

“Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand?
Hey Joe, I said where you goin' with that gun in your hand?
Alright. I'm goin down to shoot my old lady,
You know I caught her messin' 'round with another man.
Yeah,! I'm goin' down to shoot my old lady,
You know I caught her messin' 'round with another man.
Huh! And that ain't too cool.”

“I got a bad, bad feeling my baby don't live here no more…
But that's alright i still got my guitar.”

“The traffic lights, they turn a blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags on downstream
Cause the life it lived, is, is dead”

“I try to get up every day.”

“Start with a shovel, wind up with a spoon”

“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.”

“White collar conservative flashin' down the street,
Pointing that plastic finger at me,
Hoping soon my kind will drop and die,
But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.”

“Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway…”

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

“I don’t want to be a clown anymore. I don’t want to be a ‘rock and roll star.”

“I’m sorry, am I mumbling? Tell me when I’m mumbling. Damn … I always mumble.”

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