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.
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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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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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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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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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 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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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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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 blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
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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 don’t care what critics and other people think.
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Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.
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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.
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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.
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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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