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.
JIMMY PAGEThe 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.
JIMMY PAGEI really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
JIMMY PAGEI love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
JIMMY PAGEThe key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
JIMMY PAGEI’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
JIMMY PAGEI don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
JIMMY PAGEWhen I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
JIMMY PAGEI will still carry on changing all the time.
JIMMY PAGEI don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
JIMMY PAGEMusic is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
JIMMY PAGEThere 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 PAGEThere’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.
JIMMY PAGEI can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
JIMMY PAGEI don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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.
JIMMY PAGEI’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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