Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
JIMMY PAGESeeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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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’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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Sometimes, 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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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 can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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I know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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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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So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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