The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
JIMMY PAGEI’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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I’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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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 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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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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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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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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 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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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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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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.
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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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