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.
JIMMY PAGELet’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.’
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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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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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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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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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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A lot of people can’t be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn’t bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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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’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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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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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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 just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.
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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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