Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
JIMMY PAGEBut to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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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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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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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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 played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be.
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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.
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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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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 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 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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