If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
JIMMY PAGEI know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.
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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 will still carry on changing all the time.
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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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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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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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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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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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