I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
JIMMY PAGEEvery record is a portrait of the band at that time.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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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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I’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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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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Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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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 don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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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.
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I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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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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