Jello Biafra Quotes

I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

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

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

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

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

Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.

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.

There is nothing wrong about being a rock n' roll guitar player.

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.

Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over.

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 remember where I was when I heard Yngwie Malmsteen for the first time. It was such an epiphany for me, and it really shaped the way I play today. I think I heard him in '83, if I'm not mistaken - I was 13 years old - and it really was amazing for me.

I like Harvey Mandel.

Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.

My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG!

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

I said to the waitress, "There's a fly swimming in my soup." She said: "You've got too much soup - he should only be able to paddle."

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

My wife went into the butchers and said: "You've a sheep's head in your window." The butcher said: "That's a mirror."

The elks, on the other hand live up in the hills, and in the spring they come down for their annual convention. It is very interesting to watch them come to the water hole. And you should see them run when they find it is only a water hole. What they're looking for is an 'elk-a-hole'.