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.
JIMMY PAGEI’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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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’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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