I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
JIMMY PAGEI 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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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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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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There’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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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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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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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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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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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 too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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 always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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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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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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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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I like change and I like contrast.
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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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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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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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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