Jimi Hendrix: "Sing sloppy and have a good beat to your songs"

An excerpt from a letter Jimi Hendrix sent his father in 1965:

Nowadays people don't want you to sing good. They want you to sing sloppy and have a good beat to your songs. That's what angle I'm going to shoot for. That's where the money is. So just in case about three or four months from now you might hear a record by me which sounds terrible, don't feel ashamed, just wait until the money rolls in because every day people are singing worse and worse on purpose and the public buys more and more records.

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(Thanks, Scott!)