This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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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 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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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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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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.
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I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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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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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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