The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
JIMMY PAGEI can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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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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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 afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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I like change and I like contrast.
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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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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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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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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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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 can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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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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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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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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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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