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.
JIMMY PAGEI don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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’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’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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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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 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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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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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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I like change and I like contrast.
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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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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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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