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.
JIMMY PAGEOnce I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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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I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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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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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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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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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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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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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 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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