I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
JIMMY PAGEOnce 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 have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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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.
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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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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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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I like change and I like contrast.
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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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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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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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There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.
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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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