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.
JIMMY PAGEI don’t go walking into things blind.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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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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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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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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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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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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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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