I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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I guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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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 love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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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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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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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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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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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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