Guitar Quote by Joe Satriani

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

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

— Lemmy

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

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

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

— Little Richard

I've always loved the guitar. You see Jimi Hendrix playing the guitar with his teeth, and OK, you know you're never going to be…

— Michelle Ryan

I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.

— Johnny Depp

I think I always wished I could play guitar as well as Jimi Hendrix.

— Michiel Huisman

Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated…

— Robert Smith

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

— Billy Corgan

I'm pretty sure I was about the only kid in school who knew who Jimi Hendrix even was. Through my older siblings, I was…

— Joe Satriani

I grew up around guitar players.

— Charlie Haden