The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
JIMMY PAGEThere’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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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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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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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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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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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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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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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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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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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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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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 may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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