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’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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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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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 think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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Almost 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.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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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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Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can’t really compare it to how it is today.
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