I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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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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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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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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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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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 idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
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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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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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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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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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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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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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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