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.’
JIMMY PAGEFrom 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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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 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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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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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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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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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If you’re working at the factory and you’re cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You’ll just make yourself ill.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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