Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
JIMMY PAGEThere’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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I like change and I like contrast.
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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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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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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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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
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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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