But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
JIMMY PAGEThe way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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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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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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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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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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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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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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