The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
JIMMY PAGEWhen 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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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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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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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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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 really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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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 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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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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I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.
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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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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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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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