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.
JIMMY PAGEI do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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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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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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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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If you’re working at the factory and you’re cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You’ll just make yourself ill.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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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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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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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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