I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
JIMMY PAGESo far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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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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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
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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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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 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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