From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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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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’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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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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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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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 still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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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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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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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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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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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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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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