The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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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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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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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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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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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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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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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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The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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