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 PAGEIf you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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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 don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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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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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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 like change and I like contrast.
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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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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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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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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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