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.
JIMMY PAGEI may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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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 can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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 don’t care what critics and other people think.
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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 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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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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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there’s a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
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