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 HendrixRead
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the idea that imitation can extend beyond one's strengths to their failures as well.
Jimi Hendrix's quote speaks to the nature of creativity and influence in the arts, highlighting that not only do people seek to replicate the successful elements of an artist's work, but they can also inadvertently mimic their flaws. This suggests that authenticity and individuality are paramount, as true artistry involves personal expression rather than mere imitation, even if that imitation includes errors.
In practice
A speaker at an art seminar discussing the balance between inspiration and imitation.
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.
Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.
I try all night to play a pretty note.
The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.
... with Voodoo Child somebody was filming when we started doing that. We did that about three times because they wanted to film us in the studio, to make us (imitates a pompous voice) 'make it look like you're recording boys' - one of them scenes, you know, so okey, let's play this and then we went into Voodoo Child
You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and youβre like an immigrant to your own world. You donβt have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.
Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.
I don't torture myself. And I do the work because of the pleasure involved. I'm satisfying a compulsion I find nigh-on irresistible. It's not necessarily because of the work itself. I just feel the need for a period of regeneration afterwards. Like leaving a field fallow when you've grazed too much on it. I feel depleted.
A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.
Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...
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