Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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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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There’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.
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Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.
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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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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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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 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 can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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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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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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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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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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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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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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I’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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