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.
JIMMY PAGEIf 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I like change and I like contrast.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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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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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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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I guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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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 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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