Jimi Hendrix By Other People Quotes

#1. You have to give people something to dream on.

Jimi Hendrix

#2. You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Jimi Hendrix

#3. 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

#4. We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds ... 'Cause there are so many sleeping people.

Jimi Hendrix

#5. There are no Jerry Garcias coming down the pike, anymore than there is a Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley. They are all at the same level - the highest level that you strive to get to as a musician. Me and my friends - we'll all be long dead, people will still be trying to dig into what Jerry Garcia did.

Trey Anastasio

#6. God was like the best musician in the world, because he put together all the sounds of nature and gave people like Jimi Hendrix his fingers and John Lennon his brain.

John Corey Whaley

#7. In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

Patti Smith

#8. It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

Jimi Hendrix

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

Henry Rollins

#10. There are famous examples of people who just had really strange ways - [Jimi] Hendrix being the biggest example of that. Or someone like Keith Richards, he just has a really idiosyncratic style.

Bryce Dessner

#11. Sometimes the music people put you into these big, rush things.

Jimi Hendrix

#12. When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Jimi Hendrix

#13. What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

Patti Smith

#14. 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

#15. There are people who are great technical players like Eric Clapton, and there are people who are great intuitive songwriters like Daniel Johnston. There are sometimes people who are great at both the technique and the creativity, the two sides of the coin, maybe Jimi Hendrix.

Jeffrey Lewis

#16. They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes

Jimi Hendrix

#17. I try to use my music to move these people to act.

Jimi Hendrix

#18. Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out.

Jimi Hendrix

#19. 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.

Dweezil Zappa

#20. 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.

Michael Rapaport

#21. Gimmicks? Here we go again. I'm tired of people sayin' we rely on gimmicks. What is this? The world is nothin' but a big gimmick isn't it? Wars, napalm bombs and all that. People being burned-up on TV ... Yes, we do.

Jimi Hendrix

#22. I'm a rock 'n' roll baby. I was one of the last actually born into rock, in the middle of it. My mother was a promoter, so I grew up with rock stars. When I was little, people like Jimi Hendrix were walking around in the living room.

Ari Up

#23. I will be dead in five years' time, but while I am here, I will travel many highways and I will, of necessity, die at a time when my message of love, peace, and freedom can be shared with people all over the world.

Jimi Hendrix

#24. You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

Jimi Hendrix

#25. It's really hard to know what people want around here sometimes.

Jimi Hendrix

#26. I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

Jimi Hendrix

#27. The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.

Jimi Hendrix

#28. It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.

Jimi Hendrix

#29. It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going ... they'll appreciate the music.

Jimi Hendrix

#30. All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mainly concentrated on my voice.

James Vincent McMorrow