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.
JIMMY PAGEI’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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If you’re working at the factory and you’re cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You’ll just make yourself ill.
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I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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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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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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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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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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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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 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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