I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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.
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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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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.
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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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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 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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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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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Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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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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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.
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