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.
JIMMY PAGEDomesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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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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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 deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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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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 may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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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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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for 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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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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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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