I’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
JIMMY PAGEI always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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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 guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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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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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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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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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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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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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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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 term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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