quotes about Hendrix
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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
-- Al StewartSource : Song: Post World War Two Blues, Album: Past, Present and Future, 1973
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Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.
-- Brian JonesSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
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 -
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I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.
-- Chadwick BosemanSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!
-- David GilmourSource : "Pink Floyd at Pompeii". Documentary, Music, 1972.
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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 -
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 -
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Ive always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
-- Eddie Money -
I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
-- Eddie Van Halen -
Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.
-- Gus Van Sant -
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 -
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Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
-- John Mayer -
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 -
Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
-- Noel Redding -
But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.
-- Noel Redding -
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If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn't be over dinner.
-- SlashSource : "Slash: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2011.
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I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
-- Warren Zevon -
I guess my guitar heroes shifted from people like Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix to people like Johnny Marr or John Squire.
-- Tad Kubler -
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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