Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
JIMMY PAGEYou don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be.
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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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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 really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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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I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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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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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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 don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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