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.
JIMMY PAGEThere’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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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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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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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I’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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 very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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