15 Quotes by Eddie Kramer

I think the box set represents the four top creative years of his life. It shows that growth pattern and shows behind-the-scenes little things that he was doing in creating those records and (is a) sort of wonderful window into the mind of the man who to me was the greatest guitar player of all time.

I think 'caretaking' is a very apt description, ... I feel like we've nurtured them along. It must be 10 years ago that the Hendrix family got the rights back and in so doing we have been literally caretaking all the wonderful music that Jimi left us.

Life was but a joke and a dream, quite frankly. We were having a good time, and we were working very hard and the sessions were very light-hearted.

Jimi's music is so universal. And kids who are getting into rock 'n' roll guitar, who's the go-to guy? It's Jimi. That's the first place you start and everything else comes from that.

Look at the mikes. There are three mikes on the drums, all Shure 58s, not what you'd call high-end condenser microphones,

You can hear Jimi experimenting with his vocal. He's rustling the paper and going 'Oh...oh...oh I don't know where I am.' ... The first time he ever sang it, and he's laughing and carrying on.

When I first did Woodstock many, many years ago, my initial impression when I went to California to look at the rushes . . . was I was appalled. I knew the performance was OK, but the visual of the crowd walking away in the mud and the way they cut it together was kind of depressing,

We won't let anything out unless we've spent an awful lot of time and spent days and weeks and months on how to make this sound good, ... We've got enough material in the vaults for another 10 or 12 years with an album each year.

This was an experiment - expanding the band and trying to make the music communicate in a different sort of way. Maybe that part of it didn't happen. But his performance is so stunning when you watch what he is actually doing. When we cut the film together in the present form, in the correct order, better angles, and you really focus on Jimi, ... you see what he is doing. He's conducting the orchestra. He's playing lead and rhythm at the same time. He's smoking a cigarette. He's doing five things at once. It's incredible.