Jimi Hendrix Quotes

I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.

I work instinctively. If I like something, I do it.

Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into it.

I don't want to think I want to feel!

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

I play as I feel.

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.

You can't force music; It just has to come to you.

So, to come In with a set routine it's something I've never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.

Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that.

And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.