You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
JIMMY PAGEI’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can’t really compare it to how it is today.
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I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
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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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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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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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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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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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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.
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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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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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