I’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
JIMMY PAGEMusic is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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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A lot of people can’t be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn’t bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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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 can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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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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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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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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 may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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I guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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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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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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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 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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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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I’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.
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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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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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I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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