I’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
JIMMY PAGESeeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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I guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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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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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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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 think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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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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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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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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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 bet you can’t play slide piano.
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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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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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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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