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.
JIMMY PAGEMusic 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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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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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 term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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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.
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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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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’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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 key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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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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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 don’t go walking into things blind.
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