I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
JIMMY PAGERight 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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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 always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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 like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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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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 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 don’t care what critics and other people think.
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The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
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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.
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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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