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.
JIMMY PAGEThe 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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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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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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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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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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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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