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 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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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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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’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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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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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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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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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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