Terry Kath Quotes

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

I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.

I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

Jimi... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he?

I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.

I don't know if anybody will ever be as good as Hendrix again.

Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over.

It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.

The one thing that Hendrix had that is unique among extraordinary guitar players is he had songs that were on the radio. His guitar genius was exposed to the masses by 'Foxy Lady.'

For just being a black artist in rock n' roll and be able to step outside and create, and make great music. And just be different. Just a different breed. And that's what I love about Jimi Hendrix's music - the way he plays the guitar is so different. He's just an icon all around.

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

I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.

Hendrix was a different kind of guitar player. It was like, 'Holy cow, this guy can sing, he can play all this weird stuff... what is this?' It was a new kind of music.

I've always been a Jeff Beck fan. Who isn't? He is in a league of his own.

Jimi Hendrix is one of the main influences on why I wanted to play guitar. He really shook me. I think it was his whole style - the look and what he did with the guitar.

Slash is one of the greatest guitar players I've ever heard, and it's amazing when you hear about all the crazy stuff he's done.

I ended up spending some time with Jimi Hendrix and hanging out with him, and that was beyond awesome.

When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.

Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitar player in the world... a guy who mastered that instrument. It was talking when he played. And when he did a solo, he made the guitar cry - or made it sound like it was coming from the devil's amplifier.

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

I knew BB King when he first started out.

I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.

Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.