I’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
JIMMY PAGEI can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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 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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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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If you’re working at the factory and you’re cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You’ll just make yourself ill.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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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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’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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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I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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When 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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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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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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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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