Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Hendrix is considered one of the greatest and most influential guitarists in rock music history. After initial success in Europe, he achieved fame in the USA following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival.
Hendrix helped develop the technique of guitar feedback with overdriven amplifiers. He was influenced by blues artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Albert King, and Elmore James, rhythm and blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield, Steve Cropper, as well as by some modern jazz.
Carlos Santana has suggested that Hendrix's music may have been influenced by his Native American heritage. As a record producer, Hendrix also broke new ground in using the recording studio as an extension of his musical ideas; he was one of the first to experiment with stereophonic and phasing effects during recording.
Hendrix won many of the most prestigious rock music awards in his lifetime and has been posthumously awarded many more, including being inducted into the USA's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. An English Heritage "Blue plaque" was erected in his name on his former residence at Brook Street, London in September 1997 and his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (at 6627 Hollywood Blvd.) was dedicated in 1994. In 2006, his debut USA album, Are You Experienced, was inducted into the United States National Recording Registry and Rolling Stone named Hendrix number 1 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2003.
“If the mountains fell in the sea,Let it be, it ain't me.Got my own world to live throughAnd I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9,I don't mind, I don't mind.If all the hippies cut off their hair,I don't care, I don't care.Did, 'cos I got my own world to live throughAnd I ain't gonna copy you.”
“Even castles made of sand,fall into the sea,eventually.”
“I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.”
“Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?”
“I try all night to play a pretty note.”
“It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.”
“Music is my religion.”
“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.”
“If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.”
“Who are you to judge the life i livei know i'm not perfect and i don't live to be.but before you start pointing fingersmake sure your hands are clean.”
“All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.”
“Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye”
“Music is a safe kind of high.”
“Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.”
“All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.”
“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. ”
“those times i burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. we all burn things we love. i love my guitar”
“And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.”
“I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.”
“You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven. ”
“The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again”
“Excuse me while I kiss the sky.”
“I'll always touch you.”
“When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.”
“You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
“I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.”
“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
“Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales, That's all she ever thinks about,Riding with the wind.”
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”