Top Jimi Quotes
I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.
Stevie Nicks
Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.
Bobby Womack
He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!
Alvin Lee
Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.
Tina Weymouth
I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.
Robert Cray
Robin Trower 
Johnny Winter 
Ritchie Blackmore 
Robert Cray 
Bobby Womack 
Tina Weymouth 
Ziggy Marley 
Gerald Scarfe 
Dick Dale 
Bryan Ferry 
Eric Burdon All Jimi Quotes
I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.
Stevie Nicks 
61% of people like this quote
Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.
Bobby Womack
58% of people like this quote
He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!
Alvin Lee
57% of people like this quote
Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.
Tina Weymouth
56% of people like this quote
I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.
Robert Cray
56% of people like this quote
Jimi was always at The Scene when he was in New York and we played many times together. He was just everywhere - he went out and jammed everywhere he was.
Johnny Winter
55% of people like this quote
I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
Ziggy Marley
54% of people like this quote
I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff.
Robin Trower
53% of people like this quote
But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.
Terry Kath
53% of people like this quote
Jimi... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he?
Ritchie Blackmore
52% of people like this quote