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.
JIMMY PAGEI’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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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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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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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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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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When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there’s a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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