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.
JIMMY PAGEI’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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 know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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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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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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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 always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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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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 believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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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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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 term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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