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.
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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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’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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There 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.
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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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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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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 know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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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