Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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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There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
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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’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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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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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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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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Let’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.’
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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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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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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