I like change and I like contrast.
JIMMY PAGEThere’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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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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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I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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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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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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