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 PAGEThere’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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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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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 like change and I like contrast.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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 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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I 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.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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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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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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There’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.
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