I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
JIMMY PAGEBut 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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If you’re working at the factory and you’re cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You’ll just make yourself ill.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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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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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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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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I spend a lot of time near water.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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There’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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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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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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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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