Blues Quote by Miles Davis

I was into Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, the blues.

— Jeff Gutt

He was Jimi Hendrix! He didn't sound like anybody else but himself. He was like Charlie Parker in his way of playing, he played…

— B. B. King

I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.

— Henry Rollins

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

At first, Hendrix went and became a superstar in London, but if he walked past the Apollo in Harlem, no one would know who…

— Nayvadius Cash

... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I…

— Steve Vai

I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.

— Noel Redding

...the blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to…

— Jimmy Page

Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix,…

— Phil Collen

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 started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of…

— Joe Satriani

By that point, I was about 12, 13 years old. I was this young black kid into rock music, which was kind of strange.…

— Michael Kiwanuka