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 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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I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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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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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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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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From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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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 just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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