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.
JIMMY PAGEFrom 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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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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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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 can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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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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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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