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.
JIMMY PAGEI like change and I like contrast.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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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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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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I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.
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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 may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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 don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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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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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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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