The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
JIMMY PAGEI do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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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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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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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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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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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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I spend a lot of time near water.
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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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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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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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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