Hendrix Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

  Chadwick Boseman

  Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

  Marisa Miller

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Band

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• You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I'm obsessed with being different.

  ASAP Rocky

  Girl, Rip, Artist

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• Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.

  Gus Van Sant

  Inspiration, Filmmaking, Really Great

  Interview with Madonna, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 3, 2010.

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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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