I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
JIMMY PAGEThere is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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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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 like change and I like contrast.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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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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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 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 spend a lot of time near water.
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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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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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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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