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.
JIMMY PAGEI like change and I like contrast.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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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 spend a lot of time near water.
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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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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 love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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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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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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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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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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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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 may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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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