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 PAGEI think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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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 deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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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 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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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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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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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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