I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
JIMMY PAGEThe idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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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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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 don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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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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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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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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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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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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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 buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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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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