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.
JIMMY PAGEAlmost 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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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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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Once 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.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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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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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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
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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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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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Let’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.’
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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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