As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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When you’ve lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.
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We’ve made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don’t know. I don’t care. I’m just grateful for it.
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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
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Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
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In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
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I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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In every kid’s life, there’s about three or four years when you’re at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you’re getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is.
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My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.
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