This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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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 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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Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.
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I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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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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 will still carry on changing all the time.
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