The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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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.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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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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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So 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?
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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