Jimi Hendrix Quotes

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come.

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

The good thing that may yet happen during dying is not the possibility of survival when we're beyond that point. The good thing that may yet happen is that our lives will have great meaning for those we leave behind.

If somebody wants to sing my songs after I'm gone, nobody will be happier than my dead body.

I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.'

We are tomorrow's past.

I'd like to think I've left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very short, and I'd like to think I'd leave some body of work that would inspire other musicians long after I've gone.

There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.

We have not been able to tour since MCA, Adam Yauch, died.

I feel like I'll be writing World War 2 music the rest of my life.

I'd like the records to be remembered just for the music.

The loss of my father will always sting. But now, everything that I do is in honor of him and celebrates his life.

I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.

To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

In death, lie. In living, cry. Carry me home to remember to be remembered.

It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.