I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
JIMMY PAGEMy 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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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I spend a lot of time near water.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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 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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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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Once 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.
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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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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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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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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can’t really compare it to how it is today.
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