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.
JIMMY PAGEI believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.
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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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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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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’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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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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 don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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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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Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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