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 PAGEI bet you can’t play slide piano.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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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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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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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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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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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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