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.
JIMMY PAGEEvery record is a portrait of the band at that time.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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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I know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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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 can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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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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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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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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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