I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
JIMMY PAGEI don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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 go walking into things blind.
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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 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 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’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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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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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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Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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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There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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