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


Bryan Ferry
Tags: Like Never Could
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I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.


LL Cool J
Tags: Just His Artist
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I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.


Robert Cray
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.
Patti Smith
Tags: Great Music About
I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
J. K. Simmons
Tags: Out Very Had
When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.
Chrissie Hynde
Tags: You Going Which
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
Tags: You People Me
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I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.


Kevin Eubanks
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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.


Jimi Hendrix
Tags: Feel Play Hard
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.
Carlos Santana
Tags: You Because Out
As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix.
Matt Schulze
Tags: Like Just Who
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
Jimi Hendrix
Tags: Good Out Had
As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.
Geena Davis
Tags: More Than Being
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix
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We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.


Peggy Fleming
Tags: You Being Wanted
When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.
Jimi Hendrix
Tags: You About Go
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I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.


Robin Trower
Tags: You Because Being
Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn't just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, 'This is going to be huge for me!' And it really wasn't at all.
Jessica Biel
Tags: Me Just Really
Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.
Jimi Hendrix
Tags: You Up Want
I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Jimi Hendrix
Tags: Me Just Get