You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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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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.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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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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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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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 not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.
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Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can’t really compare it to how it is today.
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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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There’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.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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