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.
JIMMY PAGEI think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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I guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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If you’re working at the factory and you’re cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You’ll just make yourself ill.
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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 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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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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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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