Jimi Hendrix

Guitar virtuoso

Modern influential 121 sayings

Sayings by Jimi Hendrix

I don't play guitar, I just make love to it.

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I just want to be a good musician. That's all I want to be.

1969 — Interview
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I don't want to be a legend. I just want to be a good musician.

1968 — Interview
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I don't want to be famous. I just want to make music.

1969 — Interview
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I just want to be a good person, and I want to be a good musician.

1968 — Interview
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I'm not a sex symbol. I'm a musician.

1970 — Interview
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I don't believe in war. I believe in peace.

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I just want to make people feel good, man. That's all I want to do.

1970 — Interview
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I don't believe in hate. I believe in love.

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I just want to be myself, and I want to be able to express myself.

1969 — Interview
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I just want to make people feel good with my sound, man.

1970 — Interview
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I don't believe in fear. I believe in courage.

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I just want to be able to play my guitar and make some beautiful sounds for people.

1967 — Interview
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I just want to be myself, and I want to be able to make my own music.

1969 — Interview
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The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

1967 — Press conference in London
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I don't know, man, but I don't think I'm going to live very long.

1969 — Interview with Dick Cavett
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The story of Jesus walking on water is a fairy tale unless they explain he was walking on ice.

1967 — Interview with New Musical Express
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I can explain everything better through music. You hypnotize people to where they go right back to their natural state, which is pure positive—like in childhood when you got natural high.

1969 — Interview with Rolling Stone
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The world is just a big lie, and everyone is lying to everyone else.

1970 — Private conversation with bandmate
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If I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll meet you in the next one—don't be late!

1970 — Concert announcement
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