Hendrix Quotes - Page 2

• We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.

  Noel Redding

  Stars, Sleep, Days Off

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• When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.

  B. B. King

  Men, Thinking, Player

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• I guess my guitar heroes shifted from people like Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix to people like Johnny Marr or John Squire.

  Tad Kubler

  Hero, People, Jimmy

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• Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

  Nigel Kennedy

  Ends, Feels, Egocentric

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• Girlchild . . . unfolds a compelling, layered narrative told by a protagonist with a voice so fresh, original, and funny you'll be in awe. This novel rocks . . . In Girlchild Tupelo Hassman has created a character you'll never forget. Rory Dawn Hendrix of the Calle has as precocious and endearing a voice as Holden Caulfield of Central Park. When you finish this novel, your sorrow at turning the last page will be eased by your excitement at what this sassy, talented author will do next.

  Mameve Medwed

  Character, Sassy, Central Park

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• So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.

  DJ Spooky

  Art, Rolling, Albums

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• Two of the guys that were honorary Vampires - Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix - had already died at 27. And they were certainly archangels in our group.

  Alice Cooper

  Two, Guy, Vampire

  "Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp And Friends Write A Musical Toast To Decadence". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

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• Julieanne Smolinksi has a history in rock journalism and she's a huge rock 'n' roll fan, and she was a huge fan of Ava (Elaine Hendrix) and Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies) and of the actresses. I was really lucky to get her, in between seasons on Grace and Frankie.

  Denis Leary

  Rocks, Grace, Fans

  "Denis Leary on ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 and Playing Johnny Rock". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2016.

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• [My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover.

  Kanye West

  Song, Favourite, Favourite Songs

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled] great music.

  Eyedea

  Needs, Great Music, Standards

  Source: kandisknightpr.blogspot.com

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• I just chased bands all over the country. The biggest one I saw was Jimi Hendrix.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Country, Band, Saws

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• I ended up spending some time with Jimi Hendrix and hanging out with him, and that was beyond awesome.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Spending, Hanging Out

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  War, Mean, Eras

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I was listening to Tommy Chong talking about how he feels like there is like a creative flow happening and how certain people just know how to hook into the pipe. He played music with Jimi Hendrix and felt that he was personally connected to some higher intelligence or creativity.

  Judd Apatow

  Creativity, Talking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There was a time when my taste in music was mainstream, for example - people like Jimi Hendrix - who I really based a lot of my inspiration on, was the most popular entertainer of his day. He was really number one. And bands like Led Zeppelin, The Beatles are really number one bands. But those days are very much done. I can't say that if I listen to the number one artist now that I get excited.

  Gordon Raphael

  Inspiration, Artist, Numbers

  Source: www.indieberlin.de

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• I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats.

  Gustav Ejstes

  Teenager, Long, Hip Hop

  "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

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• I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that.

  Bucky Pope

  Rolling, Stones, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are famous examples of people who just had really strange ways - [Jimi] Hendrix being the biggest example of that. Or someone like Keith Richards, he just has a really idiosyncratic style.

  Bryce Dessner

  People, Style, Example

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• I'm a rock 'n' roll baby. I was one of the last actually born into rock, in the middle of it. My mother was a promoter, so I grew up with rock stars. When I was little, people like Jimi Hendrix were walking around in the living room.

  Ari Up

  Mother, Baby, Stars

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Kurt (Cobain) was a fan of my standup, which was pretty weird. I know when people hear that, it's kind of like finding out that Jimi Hendrix really liked Buddy Hackett, but he interviewed me at a college radio station before they broke and did Bleach. And then, like, about two years later, I was opening for Nirvana at these huge sports arenas.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Sports, College, Years

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. August 19, 2009.

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• Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from.

  Robin Trower

  Player, Guitar, Feelings

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• The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.

  Brian Eno

  Guitar, Trying, Overcoming

  "The revenge of the intuitive" by Brian Eno, www.wired.com. January 1, 1999.

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• There are many excellent guitar players but I have to say Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton are still at the top! There are many imitators but very few genuine articles. There is so much more to playing than a fast blur of notes, like feeling and emotion from the soul. It's like punctuating a sentence and knowing when to lay back and not fill up all the space. Those are the things I tried to teach my son Tim when he began playing.

  Merrell Fankhauser

  Son, Player, Guitar

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• My parents were real classic rock freaks, so I heard a lot of Zeppelin, Stones, Hendrix stuff. Thankfully, they were also into lots of old soul, too, so we listened to Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire and War. I was so isolated where I grew up (a small town in Pennsylvania) that there was literally no culture.

  Princess Superstar

  Real, War, Wind

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• When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs for my birthday: Pink Floyd's 'Dark side of the Moon,' the Sex Pistols, Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix, and I can't remember the fifth one, but really different kinds of music. That's when I started to grasp it and enjoy it, listening to it. Then I started being in bands at school.

  Eliot Paulina Sumner

  Sex, School, Dark

  "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.

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