Carl Wilson Quotes

I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

It was Jimi Hendrix that I first got into when Betty Mabry turned me on to him.

My personal favourite is Jeff Beck. All the others are wonderful as well.

To this day, there's nobody, nobody that sounds like Janice Joplin.

The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.

Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues guitarist.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.

Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.

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.'

I think I always wished I could play guitar as well as Jimi Hendrix.

As a young man growing up in that era, I was very influenced by Hendrix and took to a wah wah, and I learned how to really use one effectively as Hendrix did.

I'm pretty sure I was about the only kid in school who knew who Jimi Hendrix even was. Through my older siblings, I was getting turned on to all the great music that was happening at the time, and I really loved Hendrix.

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

When I was starting my journey as a young guitar player, I was listening to The Beatles, the Stones, and all the British invasion bands, Top 40, Motown, and all the great music of the '60s. Then the alien ship landed, and life changed again forever... Jimi Hendrix.

Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over.

Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

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