There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
JIMMY PAGEI can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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 think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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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.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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 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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From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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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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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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