Top 250 Hendrix Quotes & Sayings

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.

Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.

I just chased bands all over the country. The biggest one I saw was Jimi Hendrix.

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.

I'm pretty sure I was about the only kid in school who knew who Jimi Hendrix even was. Through my older siblings, I was getting turned on to all the great music that was happening at the time, and I really loved Hendrix.

Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

Hendrix was back there with a few of the others who were like my training wheels ... hearing him as a teenager taught me to look at the guitar in a different way - and how to tap into that thing inside of me that was already leaning toward improvisation. You learn other players' licks at first; then you take off the training wheels and start using the licks as building blocks to make your own thing. That's how influences work. somewhere in whatever I do, there's a little bit of Hendrix - plus about a hundred others

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

I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.

I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.

When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.

I started off liking uptight music and then discovered Pink Floyd and Hendrix.

Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.

Jimi Hendrix's 'Electric Ladyland' and 'All Along the Watchtower,' those solos are just so cool.

I just want to be an inspiration. I'm a rock star, I'm Future Hendrix.

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

Ive always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

I think my deepness came from Pink Floyd. And Jimi Hendrix was my idol. I always wanted to be like him.

I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.

I wanna be one of those special guys. Jimi Hendrix wasn't afraid of who he was. That's the part I emulate.

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. ...both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

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.

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.

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.

Hendrix was a natural genius who played many beautiful styles. Talent as great as his doesn't come through life very frequently. Hendrix was one in a billion.

I think I always wished I could play guitar as well as Jimi Hendrix.

I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.

I ended up spending some time with Jimi Hendrix and hanging out with him, and that was beyond awesome.

I don't know if anybody will ever be as good as Hendrix again.

[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover.

Jimi Hendrix is a classic example of a player in which everything he did, it was all in his hands.

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

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

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically.

It was Jimi Hendrix that I first got into when Betty Mabry turned me on to him.

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

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.

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

I used to listen to the Beatles and Stones, whereas Angus was more into the heavier stuff - Cream, Hendrix - with the lead guitar.

I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.

As a young man growing up in that era, I was very influenced by Hendrix and took to a wah wah, and I learned how to really use one effectively as Hendrix did.

Hearing Jimi Hendrix as a little kid and falling in love with everything that he did on guitar rewired my basic nature. To me, that was a normal thing that you should do: you should strive to be as innovative as Hendrix.

The one area where I'll say that Hendrix is underrated was his ability to use chord melodies. He used different inversions of chords and was able to make a three-piece band sound absolutely huge. From the moment Hendrix and the Experience came on the scene, power trios had their work cut out for them.

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

Of all the '60s - there was Elvis, there was the Beatles, there was the British invasion, Jimmy Hendrix, and Woodstock - the No. 1 record was 'The Twist.'

I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.

I was into Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, the blues.

We soaked up everything from Beethoven to Chopin to Jimi Hendrix to Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan.

I have held Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock guitar and imagined what it would be like to play it, but that's the extent of it.

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Dead, Zeppelin, the Beatles - I paint to this music all of the time.

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

He was Jimi Hendrix! He didn't sound like anybody else but himself. He was like Charlie Parker in his way of playing, he played well, he was a person that made waves. When you heard Jimi Hendrix you knew it was Jimi Hendrix, he introduced himself in his instrument... You know, many radio stations play records and a lot of the times they don't call out the names who you just listened to, but when they play Jimi Hendrix, you don't have to tell me, [you know] it's Jimi Hendrix.

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

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

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.