The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
JIMMY PAGEYou can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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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 love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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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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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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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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There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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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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I’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
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