#jimi

I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal. ↗

— Carl Wilson

#i #jimi #jimi hendrix #just #phenomenal

I never really got to know Jimi as a person. ↗

— Johnny Winter

#i #jimi #know #never #person

I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#average #average person #dead #grateful #grateful dead

So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

#big #compare #daddy #five #flash

I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#coltrane #davis #everybody #eye #grew

What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison. ↗

— Patti Smith

#had #hendrix #i #jim #jimi

Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me. ↗

— Al Stewart

#hendrix #jimi #jimi hendrix #loud #me

He dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle and play and play. It didn't matter what key or tempo or what melody, they would keep on playing through their discordance until they found a common language. ↗

— Patti Smith

#dreams

What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water? ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#jimi-the-kewl #natural-questions #seneca #nature

I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff. ↗

— Robin Trower

#always #been #big #big influence #early