The reflection of the world is blues, thats where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music thats tryin to come around. – Jimi Hendrix
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar. – Jimi Hendrix
The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. – Jimi Hendrix
Its funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life. – Jimi Hendrix
We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. – Henry David Thoreau
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin