I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
JIMMY PAGEYou don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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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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I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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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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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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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 played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be.
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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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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 think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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