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.
JIMMY PAGEThe 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there’s a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
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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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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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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 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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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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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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.
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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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