Crystallize Quotes

You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints. With one note people know me, or Eric, or Jeff Beck, or Jimi Hendrix. I would say to him or her: learn to develop your own voice. It`s like someone said: if you take from just one person, it`s stealing. But take from everyone, and it`s research.

I think if Jimi had had the right person, she would have said: `Let`s go to Hawaii and get rid of Jimi for a week. You need to crystallize your existence and achieve that clarity of vision. This is the word that separates human beings from gods: willingness. Most people don`t have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims. And, like Jim Morrison or Jimi Hendrix or Marvin Gaye, they die as victims. But John Coltrane didn`t die as a victim.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people`s criticisms, carry out your plan.

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can`t soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.