My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
JIMMY PAGECrowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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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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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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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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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 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 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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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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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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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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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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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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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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