I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
JIMMY PAGEI really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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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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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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There’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.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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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The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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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’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 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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There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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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.
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