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.
JIMMY PAGEMy vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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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’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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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Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
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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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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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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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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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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 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 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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