I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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 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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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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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 love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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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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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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There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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