So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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 have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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 think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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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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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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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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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 don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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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 will still carry on changing all the time.
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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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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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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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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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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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
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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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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’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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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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