I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
JIMMY PAGESo many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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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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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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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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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’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 always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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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.
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