The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
JIMMY PAGEMusic is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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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 don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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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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I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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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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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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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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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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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