The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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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I’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
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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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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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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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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 love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I like change and I like contrast.
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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 think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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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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