I bet you can’t play slide piano.
JIMMY PAGEI’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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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 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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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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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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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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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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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 really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.
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