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.
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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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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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 don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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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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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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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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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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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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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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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 at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
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