I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
JIMMY PAGEThe way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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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I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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