Hendrix Quotes
104 quotes by 87 authors
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You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody…
— Stevie Ray Vaughan
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The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix,…
— Steven Van Zandt
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I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I…
— Warren Zevon
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I am the flying saucer man from another world trapped on yours until they come to rescue me. One day the saucer will land. Jimi…
— Henry Rollins
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I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
— Patti Smith
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She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the…
— John Green
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I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and the…
— Phil Anselmo
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I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.
— Chadwick Boseman
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The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis.
— Robbie Robertson
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I was very friendly with Jimi Hendrix because my boyfriend at the time, Tommy Weber, was making a film about him, so I would go…
— Charlotte Rampling
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
— Carl Wilson
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I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.
— Robert Cray
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I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.
— Noel Redding
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And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil…
— Gerald Scarfe
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We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!
— Geezer Butler
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I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.
— Phoebe Snow
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Being on tour together and being constantly with the same few people means we now think the same things are funny, we have inside jokes…
— Gym Class Heroes
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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…
— Motorhead
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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 gentleman:…
— Motorhead
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I was obsessed with a writer called Martin Amis when I was a teenager. I read everything. Every single time I went to a bookshop,…
— Robert Pattinson
Who Wrote These Hendrix Quotes
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