When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there’s a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
JIMMY PAGEI’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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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’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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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 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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I know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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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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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 love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.
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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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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 will still carry on changing all the time.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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