Purple Haze Quotes

• After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'

  Kirk Hammett

  Brother, Stars, Air Guitar

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• Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Hippie, Kissing, Sky

  Song: Purple Haze

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• Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You got me blowin', blowin' my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

  Jimi Hendrix

  Eye, Night, Purple

  Song: Purple Haze

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• I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  "Song: 'If 6 Was 9'". 1967.

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• People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and kicking ass!' Now it's 'What do you reckon you'll be doing at 60?' and the answer's exactly the same. I'm always going to love Jimi Hendrix - 'Purple Haze' will still give me a hard-on when I'm hooked up to a life-support machine. Hey, even when I'm dead, they're going to have a hell of a job nailing the coffin lid down.

  Steven Tyler

  Jobs, Purple, People

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• Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

  Carl Sandburg

  Two, Purple, Yesterday

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Play, Purple, Style

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• It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Fog, Enchantment, Add

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• Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Song, Hippie, Kissing

  Song: Purple Haze

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• Let me live my life the way I want to.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Guitar, Want, Way

  Song: If Six Was Nine, Album: Axis: Bold As Love

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