Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
JIMMY PAGEThe only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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 love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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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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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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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 know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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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 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.
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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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