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.
JIMMY PAGEYou can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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 know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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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’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.
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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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The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
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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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I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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