The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
JIMMY PAGERight from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can’t really compare it to how it is today.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be.
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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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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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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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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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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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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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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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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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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