I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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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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 don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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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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 don’t go walking into things blind.
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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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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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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
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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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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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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 will still carry on changing all the time.
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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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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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 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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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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 always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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