Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
JIMMY PAGEThere’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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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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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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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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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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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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 always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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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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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 like change and I like contrast.
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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 think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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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’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 have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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 can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.
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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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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 greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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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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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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