There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.
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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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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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I guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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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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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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