Jimi Quotes
88 Jimi quotes by 78 unique authors
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same…
— Carlos Santana
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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…
— Carlos Santana
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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…
— Patti Smith
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Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi…
— Patti Smith
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What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to…
— Patti Smith
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I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.
— Mick Taylor
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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 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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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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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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Jimi was always at The Scene when he was in New York and we played many times together. He was just everywhere - he went…
— Johnny Winter
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I never really got to know Jimi as a person.
— Johnny Winter
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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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He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He…
— Alvin Lee
Who Wrote These Jimi Quotes
78 authors contributed a total of 88 Jimi Quotes, led by these top contributors: