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.
JIMMY PAGEEvery musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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 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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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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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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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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