Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
JIMMY PAGEI 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can’t really compare it to how it is today.
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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 have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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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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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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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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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.
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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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