I don’t go walking into things blind.
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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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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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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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there’s a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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 believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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