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.
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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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’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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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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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 still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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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?
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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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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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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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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.
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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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