The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
JIMMY PAGEI don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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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.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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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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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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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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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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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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I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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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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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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I know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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