- Self - Interviewee: [Pete Townshend] I said to Jimi, I said, "Fuck it, man, we're not going to follow you on." So he said, "Well, I'm not going to follow you on." So, I said, "Listen, we are not going to follow you on and that is it. You know. As far as I'm concerned, you know, we were ready to go on now, our gears going to be there, its the end of it, you know." And, there was a certain look in his eye and he got on a chair and he played some amazing guitar, just standing on a chair in the dressing room. Janis Joplin was there. Brian Jones. Eric. And me and a few other people just standing around. And then he got down off the chair and just said, turned around to me, and said, "If I'm going to follow you, I'm going to pull all the stops."
- Self - Interviewee: [Little Richard] He was trying to spread a little joy and love together. To show the world that the end is not yet. That I got to take you higher! Not off of some cocaine or piece of grass or some heroin. But Jimi was gonna take them higher than that!
- Self - Interviewee: [Little Richard] He did it so good. He give it all to ya. And that's what you want. You want it all or none.
- Self - Interviewee: [Fayne Pridgon] The little stories and things he used to tell me, I started going for him. You know, really diggin' him. And likin', you know, him more than I was likin' the fact that he was a cutie pie with a guitar. You know, the 'in' thing at that time.
- Self - Interviewee: [Eric Clapton] The stage was set for Jimi, really. I mean, it could have been anyone. But, it had to be him, you know. Because London was just coming into a kind of really heavy soul thing. The blues movement was dying and it needed someone to bring it all back to life and cement it together.
- Self - Interviewee: [Mick Jagger] I didn't know nothin'. I just thought he'd just come out of nowhere. And, like, we just adopted him. We felt in England like because he was great and like he wasn't big in America and he'd come here. So, he'd come to England and we were there and like and he had his first record in England, like. And he was ours, you know.
- Self - Interviewee: [Juma Sutan] If he had a group of people he didn't have to tell what to play, it would have been another kind of sound. And that's the kind of sound he was looking for. Somebody that was thinking for themself, you know. And that's the difference between, right now, between the marketing of commercial music and music of true expression.
- Jimi Hendrix: [final line] Anyone who's in this, I hope to join you again, I really hope so. Wight, thank you very much. And please do not be listening to all that other bullshit.
- Self - Interviewee: [Frankie Crocker] Black radio didn't want to play Jimi Hendrix music because they said that not only his music did not relate, but, the people that went to see Jimi Hendrix was not the crowd that would listen to a black station. Then, on most of the white pop stations they said it was too hard and that he wasn't relating to that audience. And then you'd go to a concert and it was standing room only.
- Self - Interviewee: [Eric Clapton] Our manager, The Cream's manager, felt that if we went over to San Francisco too early we'd lose our market value. So, he held off and said, no-no, you must go later on and then be a Big Bang, you know, at the Fillmore. And it worked out all right in the end; but, I was really upset about it; because, we'd been asked to go and I wanted to go. I felt that they must have thought we were being big headed. But, I'd loved to have seen him play there. He did that sacrifice thing for the audience with his guitar. I've seen it so many times on film.
- Self - Interviewee: [Harold Parker] At the end of 'Wild Thing', he would go across to the amplifiers and grab hold of it and go through the motions to fucking it. Which would, well, vibrate and shake the thing to such a degree that I had to stand behind the columns holding it up whilst he fucked it around the front.
- Jimi Hendrix: Gimmicks. Here we go again. Gimmicks, man. I'm tired of people saying we rely on gimmicks. What is this? The world is nothing but a big gimmick, isn't it? Wars, napalm bombs and all that. People get burned up on TV.
- Self - Interviewee: [Billy Cox] We played at various service clubs on the post. But, most of the time we got fired from the gigs because we played real loud.
- Self - Interviewee: [Linda Keith] He came back to the apartment and played a lot of Dylan. Oh, Jimi idolized - he thought Dylan was the greatest.
- Self - Interviewee: [Fayne Pridgon] They had no idea he was going to run into a Chas Chandler or a whoever, Linda Keith, or somebody, you know, who was going to really, you know, put the icing on the fuckin' cake. Because, it was just a matter of time, you know. All's you had to do is get outta fuckin' Harlem and all those places and go somewhere where somebody with some bread and had an eye for talent, you know, and wanted to see somebody show up, do it, that had it.
- Self - Interviewee: [Albert Allen] He always felt as though he wasn't going to live long. But, I mean, most black people do anyway, you know. Feel as though they're being burnt out. You know, like a fuse is in everybody, you know. And everybody knows the limit of their fuse or how much - how much - how fast it is going. But when that fuse - most black people, the fuse is fast anyway. You got a fast fuse, you know, because of the things around him.
- Self - Interviewee: [Pat Hartley] It must be awful to live like that - all by yourself. I mean, he was totally isolated and it wasn't, you know, the case of the poor old Beatles that were isolated because a thousand people would have crushed them to death and ripped their cocks out just so they could take them home, you know, and steal their shoes and stuff.
- Self - Interviewee: [Eric Barrett] It went in a weird way. It went like - Jimi started bringing in all the musicians like his old army buddy, Billy Cox, and then he brought, I don't know, a conga player and another guitarist. That was when he did Woodstock. Up at that house, you know, like, there's all these colored guys, and it was a really strange atmosphere.
- Jimi Hendrix: [singing at the Isle of Wight Festival less than a month before his death] It was so cold and lonely, Cryin' blue rain was tearin' me up, It was so cold and lonely, Cryin' blue rain was tearin' me up, Thank you pretty baby, For diggin' in the grave and pickin' me up... .
- Self - Interviewee: [Fayne Pridgon] So we got our own little crib, you know. And it was sardines and crackers on and off, and our moms, well, my mom, would throw in a good meal here and there. You know, she uh, she couldn't stand him actually because she thought he was a bum, you know. She said, "You ain't gonna have that long-haired nigger in here."
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By what name was Jimi Hendrix (1973) officially released in India in English?
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