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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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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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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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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There’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.
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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I know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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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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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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