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’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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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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When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there’s a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
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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’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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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 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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The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
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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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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 don’t go walking into things blind.
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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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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 love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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