I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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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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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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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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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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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The 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.
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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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So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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Let’s just say I’m like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it’s time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing – one that couldn’t fly away.’
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