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While Hendrix was a celebrated guitarist, he was also an innovator in the world of audio engineering. He would experiment with his recordings to create new sounds and have more control over his music.
He began experimenting with playing guitar feedback and recording it as he played to make sure that the microphone would capture the sound. He would also use a wah-wah pedal to increase or decrease the frequencies of sound waves to create new sounds.
In 1967, Hendrix bought a fuzz box that allowed him to generate distorted sounds by picking up electric signals from the guitar. This device can be seen as one that helped Hendrix push boundaries and innovates in audio engineering.
He is considered the greatest rock guitarist of all time, and he pioneered many electric guitar techniques that are still being used today.
Jimi Hendrix showed us what it means to be a guitarist. His talent and his legacy will outlive us all.
Check out his most famous quotes that will encourage you to live life on your terms.
50 Jimi Hendrix Quotes That Will Inspire You
“With the power of soul, anything is possible.”
“I don’t have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might’ve unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.”
“May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.”
“Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening.”
“Who are you to judge the life I live. I know I’m not perfect and I don’t live to be. But before you start pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean.”
“Ain’t afraid no more. After a while your cheap talk don’t even cause me pain. So let your bullets fly like rain.”
“I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.”
“We have time, there’s no big rush.”
“All I’m writing is just what I feel, that’s all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.”
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
“Once you’re dead you’re made for life”
“Life is pleasant! Death is peaceful! It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”
“In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.”
“You have to forget about what other people say, when you’re supposed to die, or when you’re supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.”
“Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”
“You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”
“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.”
“Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.”
“Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?”
“You have to give people something to dream on.”
“Yes, it was raggedy. Yes, it had its problems. Yes, he did some things that he probably felt afterwards it wasn’t a great idea to experiment onstage in front of a half-million people.”
“Music is stronger than politics. I feel sorry for the minorities, but I don’t feel a part of one.”
“It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.”
“The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye…until we meet again.”
“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.”
“When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man”
“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
“If I’m free, it’s because I’m always running.”
“I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.”
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
“People still mourn when people die. That’s self-sympathy. All human beings are selfish to a certain extent, and that’s why people get so sad when someone dies. They haven’t finished using him.”
“A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday’s life.”
“Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.”
“All I’m gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.”
“You don’t have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don’t have to keep flashing those words all the time.”
“I have only one burning desire. Let me stand next to your fire.”
“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.”
“Music is a safe kind of high.”
“The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.”
“It’s funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life. You have to die before they think you are worth anything.”
“When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.”
“The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye. The story of love is Hello and Goodbye.”
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
“When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they’re not gonna see nothin’ but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.”
“I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.”
“Excuse me while I kiss the sky.”
“I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.”
“Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’re gonna be rewarded.” “I don’t consider myself to be the best, and I don’t like compliments… they distract me.”
