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.
JIMMY PAGEThere’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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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 love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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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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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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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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I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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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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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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