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.
JIMMY PAGEI don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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.
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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’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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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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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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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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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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 such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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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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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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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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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
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