I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
JIMMY PAGEThere’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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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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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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.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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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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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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When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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 don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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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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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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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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