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 PAGEThere’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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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 have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
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When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there’s a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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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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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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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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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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Let’s just say I’m like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it’s time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing – one that couldn’t fly away.’
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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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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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