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.
JIMMY PAGEI’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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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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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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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’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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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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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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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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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