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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More Jimmy Page Quotes
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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 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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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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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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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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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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There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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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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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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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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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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