Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
JIMMY PAGEThe greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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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 always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
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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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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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 don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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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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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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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 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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From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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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 have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.
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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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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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