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.
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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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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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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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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I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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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’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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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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