Back Quote by Joe Satriani

18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and…

— Joe Satriani

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

— Lemmy

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

— John Mayer

I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.

— Narada Michael Walden

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

And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.

— Beau Bridges

I was a guitar player first off.

— Boz Scaggs

I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had…

— Loren Mazzacane Connors

When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out in the…

— Meredith Brooks

“Jimi Hendrix often spoke about being a messenger. His hope was that his music might somehow pierce our hearts and heal our souls. He…

— Pamela Des Barres

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

— Michiel Huisman