Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.
JIMMY PAGEThe way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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 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 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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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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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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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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I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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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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