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.
JIMMY PAGEEverything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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 have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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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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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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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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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 will still carry on changing all the time.
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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’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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I’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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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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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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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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