Jimi Hendrix frasi celebri
Origine: Citato nel documentario Leggende Rock, Rai 2, 5 agosto 2013.
“Se sono libero è perché sono sempre in fuga.”
Origine: Citato in Charles Shaar Murray, Jimi Hendrix: una chitarra per il secolo (Grosstown Traffic: Jim Hendrix and post-war pop), traduzione di Massimo Cotto, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milano 1992. ISBN 88-07-07025-1
Jimi Hendrix Frasi e Citazioni
“Il Blues è facile da suonare, ma difficile da provare.”
Origine: Note dal libretto allegato al CD Experience Hendrix – The Best Of Jimi Hendrix (1997).
“Un amore è bello se è compreso, è ancora più bello se ti senti bene.”
da Come On (Let the good times roll), n.° 7
“Vivevo in una stanza piena di specchi, tutto quello che riuscivo a vedere era me stesso.”
Origine: Citato in Charles R. Cross, La stanza degli specchi, traduzione e note di Riccardo Vianello, Universale Economica Feltrinelli.
“Ti amo bambina come un minatore ama l'oro, diamo il via ai bei tempi.”
da Come On (Let the good times roll), n.° 7
Jimi Hendrix: Frasi in inglese
“When the power of love overcomes love of power the world will know peace.”
This quote has been attributed to Hendrix on the internet, and is flatly denied to have ever been said by him, without presenting any evidence as to why, beyond such unsupported, derisive and denigrative statements such as the author rants about others making in "WHAT HENDRIX NEVER SAID : They Don't Want to Know What He Really Said and Demand a Slacker Fantasy Instead" (22 March 2010) by Michael Fairchild, at rockprophecy.com http://www.rockprophecy.com/hendrix_quotes_hoax.html. Whether or not he ever spoke them, they are very similar to those reportedly of British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, quoted in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (1997) edited by Edward C. Goodman and Ted Goodman, p. 639: "We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." A similar quotation he provides of Sri Chinmoy predates any currently located source of either the Hendrix or Gladstone attributions, yet he accuses Chinmoy of simple plagiarism of Gladstone (or "Gladwell" at one point). From Chinmoy's book My Heart Shall Give A Oneness-Feast (1993) he quotes: "My books, they all have only one message: the heart's Power Of Love must replace the mind's Love Of Power. If I have the Power Of Love, then I shall claim the whole World as my own … World Peace can be achieved when the Power Of Love replaces the Love Of Power." An even earlier statement of Chinmoy is found in Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970): "When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God."
Disputed
Variante: When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
When asked if music has a meaning
Dick Cavett interview (1969)
Contesto: Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts.
Bold as Love
Song lyrics, Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
“Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.”
As quoted in Crosstown Traffic (1989) by Charles Shaar Murray
“Castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually”
Castles Made Of Sand
Song lyrics, Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
If 6 Was 9
Song lyrics, Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
Origine: Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
“Purple haze, all in my brain
Lately things just don't seem the same”
Purple Haze
kiss the sky is often misheard by listeners as kiss this guy (see wikipedia mondegreen). Aware of that, in concerts, Jimi sometimes sang "'Scuse me while I kiss THAT guy".
Song lyrics, Are You Experienced? (1967)
Contesto: Purple haze, all in my brain
Lately things just don't seem the same,
Acting funny, but I don't know why,
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.
“I don't really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me.”
Dick Cavett interview (1969)
Contesto: I don't really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me. I know a whole lot of musicians, artists out there who hears the compliments and thinks "wow, I must have been really great" and so they get fat and satisfied and they get lost and forget about their actual talent and start living in another world.
As quoted in "WHAT HENDRIX NEVER SAID : They Don't Want to Know What He Really Said and Demand a Slacker Fantasy Instead" (22 March 2010) by Michael Fairchild, at rockprophecy.com; the author does not provide any sourcing for this statement, beyond his assertion that his authority and expertise should be trusted because: "I was assigned to compile all known quotes of Jimi Hendrix and edit this text into the "autobiography" of Jimi, in his own words. That book has been censored/suppressed by all world publishers for two decades now, but it's where I became familiar with Jimi's unique syntax, vernacular, and habits of thought."
Disputed
Contesto: There's so many tight-lipped ideas and laws around, and people put themselves in uniforms so tightly, that it's almost impossible to break out of that. Subconsciously, what these people are doing, they're killin' off all these little flashes they have, cutting off the idea of wanting to understand. They forgot, didn't believe, or just snuffed the feelings or thoughts off to continue with their crazy soul. They don't have the patience to really check out what's happenin' through music, theater and science. It’s like a spaceship. If a spaceship came down and you know nothin’ about it, the first thing you’re going to think about is shooting it. In other words, you get negative in the first place, which is not really the natural way of thinking. It’s like shooting at a flying saucer as it tries to land without giving the occupants a chance to identify themselves.
“You got me blowin, blowin my mind,
Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?”
Purple Haze
Song lyrics, Are You Experienced? (1967)
As quoted in "WHAT HENDRIX NEVER SAID : They Don't Want to Know What He Really Said and Demand a Slacker Fantasy Instead" (22 March 2010) by Michael Fairchild, at rockprophecy.com; the author does not provide any sourcing for this statement, beyond his assertion that his authority and expertise should be trusted because: "I was assigned to compile all known quotes of Jimi Hendrix and edit this text into the "autobiography" of Jimi, in his own words. That book has been censored/suppressed by all world publishers for two decades now, but it's where I became familiar with Jimi's unique syntax, vernacular, and habits of thought."
Disputed
Contesto: There's so many tight-lipped ideas and laws around, and people put themselves in uniforms so tightly, that it's almost impossible to break out of that. Subconsciously, what these people are doing, they're killin' off all these little flashes they have, cutting off the idea of wanting to understand. They forgot, didn't believe, or just snuffed the feelings or thoughts off to continue with their crazy soul. They don't have the patience to really check out what's happenin' through music, theater and science. It’s like a spaceship. If a spaceship came down and you know nothin’ about it, the first thing you’re going to think about is shooting it. In other words, you get negative in the first place, which is not really the natural way of thinking. It’s like shooting at a flying saucer as it tries to land without giving the occupants a chance to identify themselves.
“And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually..”
Castles Made Of Sand
Song lyrics, Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
Variante: Castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually
Room Full Of Mirrors
Song lyrics, Rainbow Bridge (1971)
Contesto: I used to live in a room full of mirrors,
All I could see was me.
Then I take my spirit and I smash my mirrors,
And now the whole world is here for me to see,
Now I'm searching for my love to be.
Variante: Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
“If I'm free, it's because I'm always running”
Variante: If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.
