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.
JIMMY PAGEWhen 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.
JIMMY PAGEI’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
JIMMY PAGESometimes, 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.
JIMMY PAGEI’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.
JIMMY PAGEI’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
JIMMY PAGEA lot of people can’t be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn’t bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
JIMMY PAGEAlmost 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 PAGEThe greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
JIMMY PAGEI can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
JIMMY PAGEBut to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
JIMMY PAGEI really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
JIMMY PAGEThere’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.
JIMMY PAGEAll my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
JIMMY PAGELet’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.’
JIMMY PAGEIf 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.
JIMMY PAGEI 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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