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.
JIMMY PAGEI don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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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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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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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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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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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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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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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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There’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.
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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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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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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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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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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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