As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player. — Lemmy Copy Share Image
I think my deepness came from Pink Floyd. And Jimi Hendrix was my idol. I always wanted to be like him. — Scarface Copy Share Image
Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. — Syd Barrett Copy Share Image
I ended up spending some time with Jimi Hendrix and hanging out with him, and that was beyond awesome. — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking. — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
It was Jimi Hendrix that I first got into when Betty Mabry turned me on to him. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Hearing Jimi Hendrix as a little kid and falling in love with everything that he did on guitar rewired my basic nature.… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
At first, I didn't think playing guitar was the right thing for me to do. But after seeing Jimi Hendrix on television… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
You can talk about all the great guitarists you want Jimi Hendrix or whoever but as far as I'm concerned, Duane Allman… — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix was just so fluid. His hands were connected to his soul, you know? His playing was just so emotional. You… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix,… — Ronnie Wood Copy Share Image
I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones,… — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Here's something weird, though: I loved Jimi's music so much that I would never perform it for people. Throughout my teens and… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
The one area where I'll say that Hendrix is underrated was his ability to use chord melodies. He used different inversions of… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
Girlchild . . . unfolds a compelling, layered narrative told by a protagonist with a voice so fresh, original, and funny you'll… — Mameve Medwed Copy Share Image
When I moved to L. A. with this little wimpy garage band, the first people we met were the Doors. Then we… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
I was lucky to have a guitar teacher who asked me what I wanted to learn. I brought in "High & Dry"… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
“[Jimi Hendrix] dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Junior told me once that he was very impressed by Jimi Hendrix, by the way he was very wild, and yet he… — Mitch Mitchell Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
“He died at forty-two. I was there to collect his talent. I was there at the hospital deathbed of my beloved Billie… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
In 1967, I was 21, and the only guy I knew in London was Neville Chester, a roadie who worked with the… — Motorhead Copy Share Image
“Had Kurt Cobain not committed suicide in 1994, would his genius have survived the continuous incisions of a media that was only… — Dave Thompson Copy Share Image
“Fifteen years ago, the cultural critic Greil Marcus wrote of Jimi's performance of our national anthem as "his great NO to the… — Michael Lang Copy Share Image
All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The way Hendrix plays his guitar, is the way I put in my contacts. If not better. — Christopher Mintz Plasse Copy Share Image
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![“In 1967, I was 21, and the only guy I knew in London was Neville Chester, a roadie who worked with the Who. I rang him up and said, "Can I crash on your floor?" He was sharing a flat with [Hendrix bassist] Noel Redding. So when Hendrix needed an extra guy, I was right there. To see Hendrix play…” quote by Motorhead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e80/motorhead-17753_god-bless_in-1967-i-was-21-and-the-only-guy-i-knew_259205.jpg)
