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.
JIMMY PAGEA 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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If you’re working at the factory and you’re cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You’ll just make yourself ill.
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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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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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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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Let’s just say I’m like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it’s time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing – one that couldn’t fly away.’
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There’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be.
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I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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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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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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