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.
JIMMY PAGEFrom the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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A lot of people can’t be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn’t bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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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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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 like change and I like contrast.
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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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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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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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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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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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