I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
JIMMY PAGEYou can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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I’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.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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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 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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I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there’s a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
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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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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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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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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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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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