Jimi Hendrix

"Excuse me while I kiss the sky."

"I'm here on earth for a short time, and I want to make the most of it."

"See, I am hope. I am desire. I am the drive for something more."

"Man, I'm just trying to make beautiful music."

"Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll say this is too hard."

"The more I grow, the more I understand there's no real anything without it's opposite."

"I've been imitated so well, I've heard people copy my mistakes."

"You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven."

"I want to turn the world on with my guitar."

"Everybody is unique, you're different from the next person."

"The main thing we were trying to do was play music the way we felt it."

"I'm not ashamed of my life, I'm not ashamed of what I've done."

"We used to play at little coffee shops, just trying to get gigs anywhere."

"I think my mother gave me the instinct to be a musician."

"Night after night going over what you did that day, making sure you're improving."

"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can get you a comfortable place to be unhappy."

"I want to express myself in a different way, I don't want to be stuck in one bag."

"The experience doesn't seem like that much fun, to sit around and play with instruments."

"Playing guitar is like learning to speak a language without a translator."

"Some people are always dreaming of success while others are out working for it."

"I try to make everything I play meaningful."

"You have to be true to what you're doing and not let people change your vision."

"I don't want to be a rock star. I would like to be just remembered as a good guitarist."

"Fear is something that forces you to think about things you don't normally think about."

"I need to understand how I'm going to survive without playing music."

"There's no particular reason why I should not do my own thing."

"I just want to have the freedom to do what I want to do, and that's being a musician."

"When you play, try not to play all of your tricks or licks."

"I learned to play guitar because I wanted to make people feel better."

"Adventure is out there, you just have to be brave enough to find it."