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.
JIMMY PAGEI love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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’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 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 played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be.
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There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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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 really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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