You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
JIMMY PAGEIf you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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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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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 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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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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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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 don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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When 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.
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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.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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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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