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.
JIMMY PAGEYou absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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 really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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I’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
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I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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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 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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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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Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.
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