When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
JIMMY PAGELet’s just say I’m like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it’s time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing – one that couldn’t fly away.’
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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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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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 have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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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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I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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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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