There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
JIMMY PAGEI like change and I like contrast.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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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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When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there’s a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.
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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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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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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
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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’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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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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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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at 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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