I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
JIMMY PAGEI’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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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 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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Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.
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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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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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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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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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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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 can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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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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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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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Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can’t really compare it to how it is today.
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I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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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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