Hendrix Quotes - Page 5

• But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.

  Noel Redding

  People, Bass, Realising

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• Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

  Noel Redding

  Different, Drummer, Mets

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• 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

  School, Years, Drummer

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• I say I'm Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin all wrapped up into one. If I die early ... I'll be just like those guys.

  Dennis Rodman

  Guy, Explanation, Dies

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• My first lessons lasted two weeks and it was Jingle Bells. It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix.

  Joe

  Play, Two, Lessons

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• The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.

  Dhani Harrison

  Dad, Guitar, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Jimi Hendrix was just so fluid. His hands were connected to his soul, you know? His playing was just so emotional. You could feel the fire, you could feel the blues. You could feel the sadness. It's unbelievable.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Sadness, Emotional, Fire

  "Guitar Gods" By David Fricke, www.rollingstone.com. April 1, 1999.

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• 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

  Thinking, Guitar, Damn

  "Their Britannic Majesties Request". Mojo Magazine Interview, www.brianmay.com. August 1999.

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• 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 confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK".

  Joe Satriani

  Football, Team, Giving

  "Joe Satriani: The Satch Tapes". Music, Video, 1993.

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• Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again - S-E-R-F music.

  Jello Biafra

  Tonight, Surf, Said

  Introducing the song "New Feudalism" with The No WTO Combo, November 30, 1999.

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• You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he's showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it's confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn't feel like he deserves to be there.

  Bruno Mars

  Hate, Guitar, Doe

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• You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Jeans, People, Fats

  "Bon Jovi tells how his wife and kids saved him when the crazy lifestyle got too much". Interview with Billy Sloan, www.dailyrecord.co.uk. November 7, 2010.

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• I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

  LL Cool J

  Creativity, Artist, Listening

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• I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Pages, Grew Up, Cream

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

  John Mayer

  Failure, Who I Am, Defined

  "100 Greatest Artists. Jimi Hendrix" by John Mayer, December 2, 2010.

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• Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Brother, Albums, Inspired

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• I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Attitude, Player, Brilliant

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• Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitar player in the world... a guy who mastered that instrument. It was talking when he played. And when he did a solo, he made the guitar cry - or made it sound like it was coming from the devil's amplifier.

  Bruno Mars

  Player, Guitar, Talking

  Source: www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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• Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Little Richard and Etta James all play the same venues. It was a mix of funk, soul, blues and rock 'n' roll.

  Phil Collen

  Brother, Artist, Rocks

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• What excites me about a lot of the artists I love - and I realize, well, they created their own personal world that I could enter into through their music and through their songwriting. There's people that can do it instrumentally, like Jimi Hendrix or Edge of U2 or Pete Townshend. I didn't have as unique - a purely musical signature. I was a creature of a lot of different influences.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Artist, Unique, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Attitude, Way, Brilliant

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• I was lucky to have a guitar teacher who asked me what I wanted to learn. I brought in "High & Dry" by Radiohead and "Mr. Jones" by Counting Crows and he was like, "Alright, I'm gonna teach you these, but you're also gonna learn some stuff that I want you to learn." He taught me Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, so I was getting the technical stuff and the fun stuff.

  Rostam Batmanglij

  Teacher, Fun, Crow

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• By that point, I was about 12, 13 years old. I was this young black kid into rock music, which was kind of strange. People would always assume I'd be into like more modern R&B, which is a stereotype, but that was kind of what was expected. And I had all these guitar magazines of all these musicians that didn't look like me. So I assumed Jimmi Hendrix was one of those.

  Michael Kiwanuka

  Kids, People, Black

  "Michael Kiwanuka: For Those Who Think Young". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 28, 2012.

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• Jimi Hendrix came on TV on this documentary and it was this African-American soulful black guy, playing an electric guitar, which I'd just started. And it just blew my head off. I had like an afro at the time, too. It was a bit all over the place. And it wasn't a thing to have an afro. No, that's kind of quite old school. You're supposed to have like a neatly cut shaped up haircut.

  Michael Kiwanuka

  School, Cutting, Guy

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• I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.

  Demetri Martin

  Grateful, Average, Woodstock

  "Demetri Martin On 'Taking Woodstock'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 15, 2009.

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