This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
JIMMY PAGEThe gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.
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There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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I know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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