Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
JIMMY PAGEI played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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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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There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
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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 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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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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 really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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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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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 pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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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 don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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 like change and I like contrast.
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Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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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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So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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