The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
JIMMY PAGEThere are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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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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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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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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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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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 do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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I’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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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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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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