I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
JIMMY PAGEThere’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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 know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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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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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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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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.
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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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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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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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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.
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