When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there’s a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
JIMMY PAGEThere’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.
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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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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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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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 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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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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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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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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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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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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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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 played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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