I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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 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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From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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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The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
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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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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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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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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 can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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I know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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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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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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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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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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