I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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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.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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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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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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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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 always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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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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There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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