From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
JIMMY PAGESeeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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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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I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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I guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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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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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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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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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.
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I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be.
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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Let’s just say I’m like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it’s time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing – one that couldn’t fly away.’
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Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can’t really compare it to how it is today.
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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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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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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 do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.
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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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