Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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 guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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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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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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I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
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I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
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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.
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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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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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