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.
JIMMY PAGEThere’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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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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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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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I guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
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I 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.
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Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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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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