The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
JIMMY PAGEI’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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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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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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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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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 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’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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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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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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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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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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