Hendrix Quotes - Page 4

• Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

  Ronnie Wood

  Music, Kids, White

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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 that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

  Patti Smith

  Rocks, Two, People

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.

  David Crosby

  Music, Play, Dancing

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• 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 well, he was a person that made waves. When you heard Jimi Hendrix you knew it was Jimi Hendrix, he introduced himself in his instrument... You know, many radio stations play records and a lot of the times they don't call out the names who you just listened to, but when they play Jimi Hendrix, you don't have to tell me, [you know] it's Jimi Hendrix.

  B. B. King

  Music, Play, Names

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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 Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.

  Patti Smith

  Spiritual, Stars, Rocks

  "American icon". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2003.

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• I remember writing a song when I was about 15. This is the one I can remember. I know I'd been writing poetry for a long time, since I was about eight, but I remember my first one that I put to chords. I was really trying to be like the psychedelic era Beatles, I was obsessed. All I could think about was Beatles and Hendrix. So I tried to write a psychedelic song, and it was the worst. I couldn't even... If I read it now - I still have the book somewhere - it makes me cringe out loud. It was just about psychedelic stuff.

  Ladyhawke

  Song, Book, Writing

  "Coup De Main x AllTracks | Ladyhawke". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. March 21, 2016.

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• I used to live in Seattle, as did Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee. I lived near the arboretum. Very often I would take walks late at night by Lake Washington, because I found it very easy to meditate there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Night, Lakes

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• I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!

  Earl Monroe

  Artist, Blood, Years

  "'The Pearl' Still Shining: An Interview with New York Knicks Legend Earl Monroe". Interview with Keith Schlosser, bleacherreport.com. November 24, 2009.

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• I went into the house. I put on Jimi Hendrix's 'Red House' at full volume, filled the glass to the brim with rum, without ice, and went back to the terrace. To gaze at the night and the dark sea and the night.

  Pedro

  Dark, Night, Glasses

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• It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed.

  Pete Townshend

  Color, Play, Culture

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• Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically.

  Frank Zappa

  Culture, Today, Revolutionary

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• I think I was around 10 or 11 years of age when I got my first guitar, but I can remember being as young as 3 or 4 watching my father jam on acoustic to his favorite rush and Jimmy Hendrix albums so I have always been around music.

  Mike Powell

  Father, Thinking, Guitar

  "Interview: Conducting From the Grave, Mike Powell". Interview with Matt Darcy, nrpbeta.wordpress.com. May 9, 2011.

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

  Henry Rollins

  Men, People, He Man

  Source: paulsemel.com

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• The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.

  Jimmy Page

  Wise, Guitar, Imagination

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• I saw. I wanted to start my own store so people would know that what they were buying was real. There were bootlegs around at the time that had my name on the cover, but the music had nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to compare myself to [Jimmie] Hendrix, but back in the '70s, there were some Hendrix bootlegs.

  DJ Shadow

  Real, Names, People

  "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.

  Keith Richards

  Heart, Cat, Guitar

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• Great creators like Yves Saint Laurent or Jimmi Hendrix; they are people who are so smart and so sensitive. They have such a sharp vision of life that everyday life is complicated for them. They are moved and shocked with so many things that they have to make it positive with creation.

  Jalil Lespert

  Smart, People, Everyday

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

  Chadwick Boseman

  Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are no Jerry Garcias coming down the pike, anymore than there is a Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley. They are all at the same level - the highest level that you strive to get to as a musician. Me and my friends - we'll all be long dead, people will still be trying to dig into what Jerry Garcia did.

  Trey Anastasio

  Long, People, Trying

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• I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

  Phoebe Snow

  Female, Alive, Fantasy

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• There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

  Carlos Santana

  Peace, War, Flower

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• When I moved to L. A. with this little wimpy garage band, the first people we met were the Doors. Then we met Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. All of the people who died of excess were our big brothers and sisters. So I said to myself: How do you become a legend and enjoy it? The answer is to create a character as legendary as those guys and leave that character on the stage.

  Alice Cooper

  Brother, Character, Doors

  "Alice Cooper: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 02, 2009.

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• I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Dad, People, Missing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin?

  Lars von Trier

  Expression, Creative, Drug

  "Lars von Trier: I was addicted to drugs and alcohol" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2014.

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• I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks.

  Aynsley Dunbar

  Balls, Bucks, Down And

  "ON THE COVER: Aynsley Dunbar". Interview wth Rick Mattingly, www.moderndrummer.com. May 1982.

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