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.
JIMMY PAGEI love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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 can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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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’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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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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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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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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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I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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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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