I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
JIMMY PAGEI’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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I like change and I like contrast.
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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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The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
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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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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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From 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.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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Right 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.
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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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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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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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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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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