You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
JIMMY PAGEI will still carry on changing all the time.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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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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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
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I’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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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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There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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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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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 over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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 think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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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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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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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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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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From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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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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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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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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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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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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