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.
JIMMY PAGEWhen 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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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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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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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 think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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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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