Aynsley Dunbar quote: "I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks."

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

I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQue...
JOHN VARVATOS

At some point, I would just love to sit down and have a conversation with him and say 'Bruce, what h...
BILL WARGO

I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
CARL WILSON

Jimi was at our house more than he was at his dad's. A lot of times Jimi would spend the night, so h...
DOUG WHEELER

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing w...
MICK TAYLOR

I have a lot of memories with these people. It was great recording with Hendrix [and] playing with S...
DAVE MASON

I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.
DAVID CASSIDY

John wasn't (Jimi) Hendrix. It was real simple ... we rehearsed a lot.
JOAQUIN PHOENIX

Prince got some Marvin Gaye and Jimi Hendrix and Sly in him, also, even Little Richard. He's a m...
MILES DAVIS

I've not met Elvis or Jim Morrison, but Jimi Hendrix, Johnny and I used to jam at a club in New York...
EDGAR WINTER

I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jim...
STEVEN ADLER

I learned from Jimi Hendrix. They all wanted him to do the tricks, and at the end of his career, he ...
PRINCE

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: The BBC Sessions.
JIMI HENDRIX

He's like having my very own Jimi Hendrix, ... There's simply nothing he can't play well.
BONNIE RAITT

Jimi Hendrix, he was a rock star. But he played guitar; I don't. I've just found ways to use...
FUTURE

Is he laughing with you or at you? If you have to ask then likely your being laughed at
BRENT M. JONES

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.
LL COOL J

As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach....
MATT SCHULZE

You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix ...
JON BON JOVI

Three’s all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER

(Wilf) decided he wanted to sit down with me at some point later on and talk about some stuff. All h...
MATT BIRK

He spent a little time with me on the stairs and told me his vision of what he wanted to do with the...
PATTI SMITH

He dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field ...
PATTI SMITH

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.
JIMI HENDRIX

What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who h...
PATTI SMITH

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
BRYAN FERRY

...God was like the best musician in the world, because he put together all the sounds of nature and...
JOHN COREY WHALEY

My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking dow...
MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO

When Don was at the News Bureau, he was all about the concept. We would sit and talk in groups and c...
LEE MCDONALD

Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY

When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and woul...
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
JOHN MAYER

In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great v...
PATTI SMITH

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.
ROBERT CRAY

I'm gonna be a superstar musician, kill myself and go out in a flame of glory, just ike Jimi Hendrix
KURT COBAIN

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix...
PHOEBE SNOW

In fact, he offered me $60 a week. I never thought of mentioning that before. $60 a week was pretty ...
JULIUS SCHWARTZ

[He] is one of those virtuoso guitar players. Sometimes I equate him to the flamenco Jimi Hendrix. Y...
WALLY INGRAM

The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass...
ROY WOOD

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye. The story of love is Hello and Goodbye.
...
JIMI HENDRIX

How did he keep playing when money got
really tight, and there was no more food in the house? H...
ANTONY JOHN

Gale offered to come with me to 2, but I could see I was tearing him away from his work with Beetee....
SUZANNE COLLINS

I never faced Pete (Sampras) in a match. I think from watching, his is the best serve ever. And he i...
JAMES BLAKE

I don't know where they (tabloids) come up with these things. One week, they have me going out with ...
HALLE BERRY

My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w...
KAREN BASS

I was a total stranger to him, and he let me sit down at his table and we talked for an hour, ... I ...
STEPHAN PASTIS

I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT

Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL

I played the Buick at Flint with Tiger and he was air mailing me 50 to 60 yards every shot.
FRED FUNK

He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a ta...
JOE SHUSTER

I've heard the stories. Like, Eric Clapton said he wanted to burn his guitar when he heard Jimi ...
NEIL PEART

And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from J...
GERALD SCARFE

I thought I was in their plans. When I met with coach [Andy] Reid at the end of the season, we talke...
CORRELL BUCKHALTER

The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It'...
DHANI HARRISON

First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venu...
ERIC ANDRE

I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on t...
DAVE NAVARRO

I played with Tiger [Woods], and I probably felt like you would be out there with me. Tiger is getti...
GREG NORMAN

Because of the nature of the injury, he really couldn't do much. He would try to come out and coach ...
DANIEL LEWIS

The music I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix, a...
MILES DAVIS

You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in m...
ASAP ROCKY

Brad is a pretty special player. We had to try to come up with something new because the first time ...
BARRETT WILLIAMS

When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hen...
CHRIS CORNELL

My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd tak...
BERNARD L. SCHWARTZ

I was put in a position with a man that, whenever he would call me at work or at home, work-related,...
ANDREA MACKRIS

If I have to describe him, I would describe him as John Wayne. He was a strong person; he would just...
BARBARA REILLY

The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi He...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON

At the time I played with him (Ian), I didn't think I would ever play with another quite like him. I...
DENNIS BERGKAMP

Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi H...
KANYE WEST

Will knelt beside me. I wished I could have taken a holo of him at that moment and played it for him...
CAMERON STRACHER

My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trust...
LINCOLN STEFFENS

When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing goi...
CHRISSIE HYNDE

(Jimi) was so into it -- if you listen closely you will see that I stayed on him, ... And when he st...
BILLY COX

I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other...
J. K. SIMMONS

My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would s...
DANA PERINO

I think 'caretaking' is a very apt description, ... I feel like we've nurtured them along. It must b...
EDDIE KRAMER

He asked me what in the world I was doing in the Marines and I told him I'd be out in a few years an...
JERRY BROOKINGS

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played ...
DAN HAWKINS

I wish these candidates would come down to our office and sit down with us.
BILLIE JOHNSON

I don't think he's ever satisfied with how he played, and he played very well, ... He's much stronge...
BARRY ALVAREZ

I said to the scouts I was standing with that Ryan would play at the highest level. He was like a ba...
ERIC HARRISON

Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others.
SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS

I had been keeping track of him since he played at Tennessee. I would keep in touch with him and spe...
LEONARD LITTLE

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put...
JOE BIDEN

The longest she ever spent with Jimi was when she tagged along with Leon to a concert when she was 9...
DAVID OSGOOD

I hung out with Merle Haggard on his bus, which sort of freaks me out. It was him and his wife. We p...
DIERKS BENTLEY

He called me, and he was crying. He was actually in Germany at that time, and I asked him what was w...
CRAIG SARNER

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stori...
DICK SMOTHERS

I love Jimi Hendrix obviously, and Jimmy Page and Prince. And also Elvis Presley is a really great g...
BRITTANY HOWARD

We were playing a game with the wind. We'd kick the ball and it would come right back at us.
ANDREW LINDSEY

My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And...
MARK HELPRIN

I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin...
PHIL ANSELMO

There was a pretty good breeze, 15-20 mph, and kicking with it the ball was going 60 yards.
HARRY OLIVER

He didn't know exactly where, but he said eventually he would be at a college and he would be lookin...
JASON MITCHELL

It was an annoying name to have. People tended to spell in Mangus, rhymes with Angus. I always corre...
RICK RIORDAN

I thought the pivotal point in the game was in the second quarter when those two guys had to come ou...
LYNN WASHOWICH

I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks.

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I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks.

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