Jimmy Hendrix Quotes

#1. 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

#2. If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

George Lucas

#3. The suits made hits and created stars because they knew something. The suits had been around the block and back, having experienced, firsthand, everyone from Jimmy Dorsey to Jimi Hendrix to Jeff Buckley to J. Lo. I trusted them because they earned that trust, at least on a purely musical level.

Anonymous

#4. I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.

Joan Chen

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

Jeff Beck

#6. I love Jimi Hendrix obviously, and Jimmy Page and Prince. And also Elvis Presley is a really great guitar player. I don't think he ever took lessons; he was piecing it together himself. But he has great rhythm. And rhythm, to me, you can use it to your advantage if you're not all over the fretboard.

Brittany Howard

#7. 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.

Mike Powell

#8. Always open, to risk and danger, to fun and laughter; to let in life and let out love.

Dave Preston

#9. In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.

Christopher Guest

#10. 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.

Jimmy Page

#11. Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

David Geffen

#12. When I write, I have a sort of secret kinship of readers in all countries who don't know each other but each of whom, when they read my book, feels at home in it. So I write for those readers. It's almost a sense of writing for a specific person, but it's a specific person who I don't know.

Teju Cole

#13. Chess teaches that actions have consequences and the wise man - or woman - will always look to the endgame ...

Tiffany Reisz

#14. Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#15. If you're in the minority, every advantage is against you, right? So the only advantage you have against the majority is they're too lazy to know their own rules, right? So it's like a game of poker.

Kevin McCarthy

#16. Who is moving in the distance? It is the clock's pendulum, Hired by the god of death To measure life.

Gu Cheng

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

Jimmy Carl Black

#18. The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

Lynn Barber

#19. We belong to Jesus because He has purchased us by His blood. He will not return or exchange what He has bought.

Anthony Carter