I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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I’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
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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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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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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