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

#collar #conservative #die #down #drop

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

#corner #dancer #either #guitar #guitar player

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. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#been #cotton #cotton fields #days #electric

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

— Jimi Hendrix

#imagination #key #little #lyrics #painted

I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#gas #get #heavy #helium #i

I try to use my music to move these people to act. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#i #move #music #people #these

You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#die #forget #loving #other #people

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#chan #charlie #got #i #monkey

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

#blues #come #got #kind #music

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

#flashing #give #keep #love #order