I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
JIMMY PAGEThe element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I like change and I like contrast.
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I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy 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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When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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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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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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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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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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Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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