The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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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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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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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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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A lot of people can’t be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn’t bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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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 deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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 don’t care what critics and other people think.
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So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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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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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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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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If you’re working at the factory and you’re cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You’ll just make yourself ill.
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There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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There’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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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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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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The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
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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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