I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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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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.
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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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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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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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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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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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The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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