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.
JIMMY PAGEI can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
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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.
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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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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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A lot of people can’t be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn’t bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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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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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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