I spend a lot of time near water.
JIMMY PAGEAlmost 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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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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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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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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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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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.
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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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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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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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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