You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
JIMMY PAGEThis week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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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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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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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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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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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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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 bet you can’t play slide piano.
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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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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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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 can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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