I 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.
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More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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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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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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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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 may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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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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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 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’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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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’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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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 think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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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.
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From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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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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