The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
JIMMY PAGEI 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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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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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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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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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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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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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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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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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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Let’s just say I’m like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it’s time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing – one that couldn’t fly away.’
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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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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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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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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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 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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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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I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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.
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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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