So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
JIMMY PAGEThe way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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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 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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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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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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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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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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.
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There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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