Hendrix Quotes

• In 1974, when I started working with the material that became Horses, a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

  Patti Smith

  Horse, Kings, Voice

  "Patti Smith: punk poet queen". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Words and books have always meant a lot to me. That someone can take words and string them together to where they will move me is just a hell of a thing. It's amazing to me; more amazing to me than music or painting. It's always been the written word or the spoken word, like a great lecture or a great lyric, or a great poem. To me it's just amazing. And I always aspire toward capturing that, or my version of it.

  Henry Rollins

  Moving, Book, Hero

  "Henry Rollins: Post-Punk Pundit". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 25, 2007.

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• 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.

  Carlos Santana

  Children, Guy, Example

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.

  Roy Wood

  Play, Rehearsal, Brilliant

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• When I started reaching teenage years, I listened to everything that was on the radio like everyone else did, which was Chuck Berry, Beach Boys and then of course The Beatles, Stones. And of course in the 60's, I was completely blown away like everyone else by Hendrix, Cream, Deep Purple, Jeff Beck and all of that... so those were my influences.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Beach, Teenage, Boys

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• I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.

  Frederick Lenz

  Vision, Musician, Rama

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• Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.

  Brian Jones

  Music, Exciting, Heard

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.

  Perry Farrell

  Escapism

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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,  
      
  “The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Justice, Want, Way

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• My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Beautiful, I Love Him, Doors

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• So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.

  Michael Rapaport

  Mean, Daddy, People

  "Actor-director Michael Rapaport". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. July 7, 2011.

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• When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood.

  Hedi Slimane

  Home, Kids, Jeans

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• I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, because that was new music for me. I really hadn't been up on them. I mean, I'd heard of them, but I wasn't up on their music. And I kept listening to Radiohead, and I was like, Man, I want to make hip-hop that feels like Radiohead. I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together.

  Will Ferrell

  Mean, Men, Guitar

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

  Al Stewart

  Real, Peppers, Loud

  Song: Post World War Two Blues, Album: Past, Present and Future, 1973

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• I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there's no way you could do that.

  Creed Bratton

  Brother, Doors, Roots

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• Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Good Friend, Noel, England

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• ... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from

  Steve Vai

  Music, Somewhere Else, Watches

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• I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.

  Joe Satriani

  Music, Men, Odds

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• I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

  Kurt Cobain

  Flames, Bipolar, Musician

  "Cobain Book Shows Singer's Life 'Heavier' Than Most Imagined" by Archive -Teri-Vanhorn, www.mtv.com. September 01, 2001.

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• Ive always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

  Eddie Money

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• Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

  Tina Weymouth

  Kids, Guitar, Mentor

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• I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul Jones of my generation

  Steven Adler

  Blessed, Generations, Keith

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• But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.

  Terry Kath

  Believe, Cat, Men

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• I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

  Little Richard

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

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• I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man. I'm doing a very bad imitation on the bass of Jerry Jemmott, Bernard Odum, Jimmy Fielder, Jimmy Blanton, Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, James Brown, Charlie Parker... the cats, man. I'm just backing up the cats.

  Jaco Pastorius

  Stars, Cat, Men

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