Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.
JIMMY PAGEI really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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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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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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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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 have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
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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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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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There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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Let’s just say I’m like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it’s time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing – one that couldn’t fly away.’
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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