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.
JIMMY PAGEI’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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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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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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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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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