I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
JIMMY PAGEI can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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.
JIMMY PAGEThe only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
JIMMY PAGEI’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
JIMMY PAGECrowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
JIMMY PAGEFrom 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 PAGEThere’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.
JIMMY PAGEThe way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
JIMMY PAGEI 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.
JIMMY PAGEI don’t care what critics and other people think.
JIMMY PAGEYou absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
JIMMY PAGEThe greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
JIMMY PAGEThere 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.
JIMMY PAGEI’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
JIMMY PAGEDomesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
JIMMY PAGEWhen you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there’s a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
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