All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
JIMMY PAGEMy 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be.
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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 think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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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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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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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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A lot of people can’t be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn’t bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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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’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 music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.
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