This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
JIMMY PAGEI 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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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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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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The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
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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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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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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.
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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 do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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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A lot of people can’t be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn’t bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
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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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