So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
JIMMY PAGEEvery musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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There’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.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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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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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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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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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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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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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’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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.
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