You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing 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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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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 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 think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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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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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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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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