I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
JIMMY PAGEEvery record is a portrait of the band at that time.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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I’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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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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There’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.
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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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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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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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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 always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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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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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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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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