I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
JIMMY PAGEI believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
JIMMY PAGEMusic is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
JIMMY PAGESo many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
JIMMY PAGEI can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
JIMMY PAGEOnce 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.
JIMMY PAGELive Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
JIMMY PAGESo far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
JIMMY PAGEI don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
JIMMY PAGEA 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.
JIMMY PAGEThe term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
JIMMY PAGEWhen 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.
JIMMY PAGEI have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
JIMMY PAGEThe 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.
JIMMY PAGEI don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
JIMMY PAGEI spend a lot of time near water.
JIMMY PAGEYou don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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