The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
JIMMY PAGEWhen 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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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.
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So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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Let’s just say I’m like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it’s time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing – one that couldn’t fly away.’
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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