Band Quote by Benjamin Booker

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

— William Christopher Handy

I have held Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock guitar and imagined what it would be like to play it, but that's the extent of it.

— Paul Allen

Otis Redding was the ultimate 60s soul singer. We only get an indication of what he might have become, but he had the best…

— Mick Hucknall

I don't know what it would be like to actually play guitar. I've toured with a lot of comedians and it's never been like…

— Eugene Mirman

After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.

— Jeff Beck

I wanna be one of those special guys. Jimi Hendrix wasn't afraid of who he was. That's the part I emulate.

— Future

I heard Otis Redding singing 'These Arms of Mine' and I knew that was the band I needed.

— Wilson Pickett

I got the idea of what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding.

— Paul Rodgers

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

— Adrian Belew

I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.

— Brian May

I'm very aware of what, say, electric guitar recordings in the '60s sounded like.

— Rostam Batmanglij

Hendrix was a different kind of guitar player. It was like, 'Holy cow, this guy can sing, he can play all this weird stuff...…

— Rick Nielsen