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.
JIMMY PAGESometimes, 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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Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
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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 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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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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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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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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