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 PAGEI think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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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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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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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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 bet you can’t play slide piano.
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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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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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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’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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