Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
JIMMY PAGEThere’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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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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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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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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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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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A lot of people can’t be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn’t bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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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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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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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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