Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrixwas an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth27 November 1942
CountryUnited States of America
I'm up here in this womb, I'm looking all around. We'll, I'm looking out my belly button window and I see a whole lot of frowns.
We take our last look at the killing noise.
You may almost forget the smell of your family.
The truth is straight ahead, so don't burn yourself instead.
Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.
A girl asked me if she could comb my hair. Nobody can comb my hair, I can’t even comb my hair.
Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things.
... with Voodoo Child somebody was filming when we started doing that. We did that about three times because they wanted to film us in the studio, to make us (imitates a pompous voice) 'make it look like you're recording boys' - one of them scenes, you know, so okey, let's play this and then we went into Voodoo Child
Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.
.. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players
The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one.
I dig Strauss and Wagner. Those cats are good.
Knowledge is speaking, wisdom is listening
Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.