Jimmy Carl Black Quotes

I was very friendly with Jimi Hendrix because my boyfriend at the time, Tommy Weber, was making a film about him, so I would go to all of his shows.

Brian Jones was a big friend of mine.

When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.

I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.

I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison.

I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.

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

I love playing with Slash, and the chemistry I have with the rest of the guys in his band is fantastic.

Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again - S-E-R-F music.

I did several shows with Jimi Hendrix, that's when I got to know him better, I knew of him, I met him [when he was playing] with Little Richard... And he was kind of quiet, shy, he didn't open up too much, but there were questions as we all ask each other. You know, "how do you do this" and "why do you do that..." We had very small discussions on things like that. And he was very polite, I thought [he was] a very nice guy.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles constantly were big influences on my life.

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

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

I did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good songwriters, and they would be a joy to hang out with.

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

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

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.

I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.

I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.

And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.