I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
JIMMY PAGEEvery record is a portrait of the band at that time.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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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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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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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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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 just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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 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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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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There’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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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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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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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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’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into 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 don’t care what critics and other people think.
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I like change and I like contrast.
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