#ow

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix. ↗

— Noel Redding

#hendrix #i #now #people #playing

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#african #african american #allowed #american #before

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#before #first #first time #got #heard

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#go #like #nowhere #only #people

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows. ↗

— Leon Redbone

#comes #consider #different #extract #history

Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people thought we were crazy, but we weren't really crazy because we're all still here! ↗

— Noel Redding

#crazy #everybody #glasses #grow #hair

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes! ↗

— Noel Redding

#got #knowing #once #point #record

We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot. ↗

— Noel Redding

#band #became #big #days #down

I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame. ↗

— Noel Redding

#coped #fame #how #i #know

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#back #big #go #hear #i