I guess my guitar heroes shifted from people like Jimmy…

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

— Al Stewart

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

— Noel Redding

I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.

— Henry Rollins

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

— John Mayer

Jimi Hendrix is one of the main influences on why I wanted to play guitar. He really shook me. I think it was his…

— John 5

I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.

— Demetri Martin

Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star.…

— Freddie Mercury

We were working 'Good Teacher' up, and it became apparent to me that, as we were playing it, the song had a Hendrix, 'Crosstown…

— Rickey Medlocke

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

— Bryan Ferry

“Had Kurt Cobain not committed suicide in 1994, would his genius have survived the continuous incisions of a media that was only too proud…

— Dave Thompson

I'd get ten tabs, and he'd take seven and give me three, which I thought was very reasonable. He was great, a perfect old-school…

— Motorhead

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

— Roy Wood

In 1967, I was 21, and the only guy I knew in London was Neville Chester, a roadie who worked with the Who. I…

— Motorhead

Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite afro, and…

— Helen McCrory

As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer…

— Matt Schulze