I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
JIMMY PAGEMy vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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 always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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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’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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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 idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
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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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I spend a lot of time near water.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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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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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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