There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
JIMMY PAGEI don’t care what critics and other people think.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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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.
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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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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I like change and I like contrast.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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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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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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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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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’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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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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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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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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