There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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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.
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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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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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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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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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I spend a lot of time near water.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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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’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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