I like change and I like contrast.
JIMMY PAGEI know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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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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’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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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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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Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
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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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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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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.
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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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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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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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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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