When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
JIMMY PAGEOnce 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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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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The 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.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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 don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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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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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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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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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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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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