I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
JIMMY PAGEI do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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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 really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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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 don’t go walking into things blind.
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I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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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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 will still carry on changing all the time.
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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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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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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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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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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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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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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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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