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 PAGEI can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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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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The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
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There’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.
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I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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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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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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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 may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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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