There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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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I like change and I like contrast.
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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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I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.
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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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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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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’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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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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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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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