I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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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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A lot of people can’t be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn’t bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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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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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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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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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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I spend a lot of time near water.
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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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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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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 over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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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