I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
JIMMY PAGEI may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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 really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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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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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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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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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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I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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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 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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Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can’t really compare it to how it is today.
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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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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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I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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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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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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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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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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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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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’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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