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.
JIMMY PAGEThere’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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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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There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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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 have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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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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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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 don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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