So 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 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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If you’re working at the factory and you’re cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You’ll just make yourself ill.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.
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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 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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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 guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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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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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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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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