Hendrix Quotes - Page 2

• You know I got kicked out of high school and I used to go to Hendrix concerts. I used to go see Marvin Gaye and B.B. King and so here I am on television as an actor playing the part of this really sweet wholesome all American boy. The reality was I had a much different kind of teenage life.

  David Cassidy

  Sweet, Kings, Teenage

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• People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and kicking ass!' Now it's 'What do you reckon you'll be doing at 60?' and the answer's exactly the same. I'm always going to love Jimi Hendrix - 'Purple Haze' will still give me a hard-on when I'm hooked up to a life-support machine. Hey, even when I'm dead, they're going to have a hell of a job nailing the coffin lid down.

  Steven Tyler

  Jobs, Purple, People

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• You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Business, Lying, Thinking

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• I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. ...both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

  Mick Taylor

  Friends, Eric, Becoming

  Log for The Artist Shop IRC Chat with Mick Taylor Sunday, www.artist-shop.com. April 18, 1999.

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• My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Beautiful, I Love Him, Doors

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• I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

  Kurt Cobain

  Flames, Bipolar, Musician

  "Cobain Book Shows Singer's Life 'Heavier' Than Most Imagined" by Archive -Teri-Vanhorn, www.mtv.com. September 01, 2001.

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• Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Good Friend, Noel, England

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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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• But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.

  Terry Kath

  Believe, Cat, Men

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• So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.

  Michael Rapaport

  Mean, Daddy, People

  "Actor-director Michael Rapaport". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. July 7, 2011.

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• I did several shows with Jimi Hendrix, that's when I got to know him better, I knew of him, I met him [when he was playing] with Little Richard... And he was kind of quiet, shy, he didn't open up too much, but there were questions as we all ask each other. You know, "how do you do this" and "why do you do that..." We had very small discussions on things like that. And he was very polite, I thought [he was] a very nice guy.

  B. B. King

  Music, Nice, Guy

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• When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood.

  Hedi Slimane

  Home, Kids, Jeans

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• I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there's no way you could do that.

  Creed Bratton

  Brother, Doors, Roots

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• I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

  Little Richard

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

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• I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, because that was new music for me. I really hadn't been up on them. I mean, I'd heard of them, but I wasn't up on their music. And I kept listening to Radiohead, and I was like, Man, I want to make hip-hop that feels like Radiohead. I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together.

  Will Ferrell

  Mean, Men, Guitar

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
  - Jimi Hendrix,  
      
  “The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Justice, Want, Way

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• Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.

  Robert Smith

  Thinking, Singers, Might

  "Timeless tunesmith". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2003.

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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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• 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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• Ive always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

  Eddie Money

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• Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

  Al Stewart

  Real, Peppers, Loud

  Song: Post World War Two Blues, Album: Past, Present and Future, 1973

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• I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.

  Stevie Nicks

  Essence, Two, Watches

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• Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.

  Brian Jones

  Music, Exciting, Heard

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

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• 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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• 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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