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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.

    Hendrix   Guru  
  • The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.

  • 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.

    Mean   Saws   Hendrix  
  • Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums.

  • I think I was around 10 or 11 years of age when I got my first guitar, but I can remember being as young as 3 or 4 watching my father jam on acoustic to his favorite rush and Jimmy Hendrix albums so I have always been around music.

    "Interview: Conducting From the Grave, Mike Powell". Interview with Matt Darcy, nrpbeta.wordpress.com. May 9, 2011.
  • 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.

  • Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

    "100 Greatest Artists. Jimi Hendrix" by John Mayer, December 2, 2010.
  • 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.

    "Timeless tunesmith". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2003.
  • If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn't be over dinner.

    "Slash: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2011.
  • You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.

    Children   Guy   Example  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Peace   War   Flower  
  • There was a time when my taste in music was mainstream, for example - people like Jimi Hendrix - who I really based a lot of my inspiration on, was the most popular entertainer of his day. He was really number one. And bands like Led Zeppelin, The Beatles are really number one bands. But those days are very much done. I can't say that if I listen to the number one artist now that I get excited.

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

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

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

    Believe   Cat   Men  
  • Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

    Hendrix  
    "Pink Floyd at Pompeii". Documentary, Music, 1972.
  • I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

    "Cobain Book Shows Singer's Life 'Heavier' Than Most Imagined" by Archive -Teri-Vanhorn, www.mtv.com. September 01, 2001.
  • I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

  • 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.

    Brother   Doors   Roots  
  • The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.

    "The revenge of the intuitive" by Brian Eno, www.wired.com. January 1, 1999.
  • 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.

    Stars   Rocks   Idols  
    "Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London". Circus Magazine, April 1975.
  • There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin?

    "Lars von Trier: I was addicted to drugs and alcohol" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2014.
  • 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.

    Teacher   Fun   Crow  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats.

    Teenager   Long   Hip Hop  
    "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.
  • 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.

    Music   Song   Real  
  • The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.

  • 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.

    Spiritual   Stars   Rocks  
    "American icon". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2003.
  • I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

    Dad   People   Missing  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

    Play   Hendrix  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • When I started reaching teenage years, I listened to everything that was on the radio like everyone else did, which was Chuck Berry, Beach Boys and then of course The Beatles, Stones. And of course in the 60's, I was completely blown away like everyone else by Hendrix, Cream, Deep Purple, Jeff Beck and all of that... so those were my influences.

    Beach   Teenage   Boys  
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