The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
JIMMY PAGESo 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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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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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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I like change and I like contrast.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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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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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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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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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There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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