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
It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.
He'd been listening to black music all his life,
But I always told him, 'When you start playing music you do something original.' He sure did, and I was really proud of him for doing that.
I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.
Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space
Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.
Music is my religion.
I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.
... 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
.. 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
I dig Strauss and Wagner. Those cats are good.
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.
.. I get more of a dreamy thing from the audience - it's more of a thing that you go up into. You get into such a pitch sometimes that you go up into another thing. You don't forget about the audience, but you forget about all the paranoia, that thing where you're saying, 'Oh gosh, I'm on stage - what am I going to do now ?' - Then you go into this other thing, and it turns out to be like almost like a play in certain ways