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.
JIMMY PAGEEverything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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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 do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
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So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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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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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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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 spend a lot of time near water.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
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