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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More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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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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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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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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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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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.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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