Hendrix Quotes

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.

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

Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.

Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again - S-E-R-F music.

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

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.

What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled] great music.

I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

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

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.

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

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

I guess my guitar heroes shifted from people like Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix to people like Johnny Marr or John Squire.

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

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