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.
JIMMY PAGEI 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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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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’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
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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 don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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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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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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 tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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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 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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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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