I say I'm Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin all wrapped up into one. If I die early. . . I'll be just like those guys.
I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!
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.
It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed.
Ive always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, ACDC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.
I guess my guitar heroes shifted from people like Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix to people like Johnny Marr or John Squire.
I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.
Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.
Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.
I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
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.
I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.
Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.
I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic. '
I ended up spending some time with Jimi Hendrix and hanging out with him, and that was beyond awesome.