If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
JIMMY PAGEI’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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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 don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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