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.
JIMMY PAGELet’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.’
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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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 at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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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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When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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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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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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
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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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