You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
JIMMY PAGEI can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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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If you’re working at the factory and you’re cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You’ll just make yourself ill.
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There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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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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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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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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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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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 can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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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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