Hendrix Quotes - Page 6

• I didn't even think I would make it that long. I thought I would drug overdose, like Jimi Hendrix. I thank God every day to even be here.

  Rick James

  Thinking, Long, Drug

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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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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• Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Romantic, Stars, Hero

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• Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

  Bryan Ferry

  Music, Firefighter, Looks

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• After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'

  Kirk Hammett

  Brother, Stars, Air Guitar

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• I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

  Ziggy Marley

  Mean, Artist, Leader

  FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from Mar 01, 2012

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• I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

  Brian May

  Saws, Yeah

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• Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.

  Janelle Monae

  Enemy, Wonder, Hills

  "Hot Tracks: Janelle Monáe". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. September 2012.

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• When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.

  Jason Newsted

  Justice, Bass, Cliffs

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

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• The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

  Carlos Santana

  Dream, Hero, Guitar

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

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• I knew Jimi (Hendrix) and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who shouldn't use drugs.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Drug, Use

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• I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.

  Joe Satriani

  Hero, Player, Guitar

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• If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn't be over dinner.

  Slash

  Dinner, Hanging Out, If I Could

  "Slash: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2011.

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• Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

  David Gilmour

  "Pink Floyd at Pompeii". Documentary, Music, 1972.

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• When I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it was like a rough sketch of what he was going to become ... this guy was our generation, and he wasn't in a suit .. he played a Howlin' Wolf song 'Killing Floor', and then we (The Cream) had to carry on the set. It was pretty hard to follow.

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Song, Real

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• The only thing I ever really wanted was a Strat .. I started playing guitar after seeing Jimi Hendrix on TV the day he died...then I got Deep Purples' Fireball album which was also a big influence .. I have a collection of more than 200 of them that includes Strats from every year since March 1954 - the first month the Strat was made

  Yngwie Malmsteen

  Music, Guitar, Years

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• After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.

  Jeff Beck

  Funny, Music, Home

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• QBert is pretty much the Jimi Hendrix of DJing. He is so far advanced. So far ahead of everybody else. He's like Yoda! Like the guru.

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  Guru

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• Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star. There's no way you can compare him. You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it. There's nobody who can take his place.

  Freddie Mercury

  Stars, Rocks, Idols

  "Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London". Circus Magazine, April 1975.

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