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hendrix Quotes and Quotations
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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 | top
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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 | top
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I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing. Ritchie Blackmore | top
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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 | top
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We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else! Geezer Butler | top
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I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes. Robert Cray | top
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I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks. Aynsley Dunbar | top
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Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. Bryan Ferry | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix. Eddie Money | top
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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 | top
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But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix. Noel Redding | top
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Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell. Noel Redding | top
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I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix. Noel Redding | top
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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 | top
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And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time. Gerald Scarfe | top
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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me. Al Stewart | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid. Tina Weymouth | top
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal. Carl Wilson | top
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The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant. Roy Wood | top
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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 | top