Jimmy Page Quotes

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.

Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin

• Guitar
• Composition
• Vocation
• Harmonies

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• My first vocation was dance.

  

  Victoria Abril
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• You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

  

  B. B. King
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• My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
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• Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.

  

  Taylor Momsen
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• I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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• I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.

  

  Jack O'Connell
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• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
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• You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
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• I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

  

  Adam Jones
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• I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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• The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just an easy song to play... and it was really cool to see that come full-circle a few years later and have him record a song that I was part of.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

  

  B. B. King
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• And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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• I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

  

  Valerie June
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• There's no continuity in videos... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene.

  

  Tamra Davis
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• I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

  

  Adam Jones
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• They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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• When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

  

  Carl Sagan
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• The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Peace
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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.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Guitar
  • Composition
  • Vocation