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 PAGEI’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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 guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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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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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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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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I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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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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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 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 love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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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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