I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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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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Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
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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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There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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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 think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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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 like change and I like contrast.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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