Roy Wood Quotes

I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.

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

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

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

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.

Jimi Hendrix's 'Electric Ladyland' and 'All Along the Watchtower,' those solos are just so cool.

I listen to 'Purple Haze' a lot. If I'm in the gym, I listen to that album the whole way through sometimes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.

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

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 liked the Doors and that kind of music.

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.

We were working 'Good Teacher' up, and it became apparent to me that, as we were playing it, the song had a Hendrix, 'Crosstown Traffic' vibe and feel to it.

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.