Jimi Hendrix on greatness
Jimi Hendrix75 quotes“I wouldn’t say that I’m the greatest guitarist ever. I’d say probably that I’m the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.”
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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.
Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix You have to give people something to dream on.
Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix Happiness is within you… so unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow- like the sweet flower you are. I know the answer- just spread your wings and set yourself free.
Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix The world is nothing but a big gimmick.
Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix This is your life – you must die by yourself, so for heaven’s sake, live for yourself and no one else.
Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.
Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix You’re a woman, at least you taste like you are.
Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.
Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.
Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That’s how it can bend.
Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix Music is a safe kind of high.
Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix They’ve imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes
Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix 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 HendrixJimi Hendrix
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When you are with your friends, control your tongue.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa No one else is on your path so why should their limits be?
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean I loved you more than love was allowed.
Lang LeavLang Leav Don’t mistake your discovery for the absence of yourself.
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A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it.
Martin LutherMartin Luther Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
Ray BradburyRay Bradbury Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.
HafezHafez The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
HafezHafez I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.
Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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