Top 70 Jimmy Page Quotes
#1. 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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#2. Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard.
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#3. I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.
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#4. 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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#5. I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.
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#6. I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.
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#7. I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
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#8. Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.
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#9. (The Song Remains The Same) is not a great film, but there's no point in making excuses. It's just a reasonably honest statement of where we were at that particular time. It's very difficult for me to watch it now, but I'd like to see it in a year's time just to see how it stands up.
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#10. Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.
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#11. 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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#12. If you wanted to chart new territories and head off over the horizon, you had to make sure you weren't overly influenced by what others were doing ... so it didn't matter what other bands were doing ... we did what we were doing ...
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#13. I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.
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#14. 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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#15. There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin. John Bonham, phenomenal drummer, young man with his technique, but do you think he would ever have the opportunity to play like that in another band? Of course he hadn't.
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#16. 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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#17. I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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#18. But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.
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#19. There's so much that can be done on the guitar. And that's what is so good about the guitar - everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it's all about.
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#20. 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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#21. I really wasn't needed ... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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#22. You never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best ...
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#23. No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.
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#24. My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.
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#25. 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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#26. I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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#27. I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.
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#28. 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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#29. You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.
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#34. The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.
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#35. My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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#37. Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't think he was wrong.
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#38. 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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#39. Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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#40. The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists ...
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#41. But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.
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#42. I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. From 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.
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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or drums, which was what I was playing, at the time. But, I got so much from mariachi bands that were constantly playing in the neighborhood.
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#50. 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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#51. Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to play for another 20 years, but I don't know ... I just can't see it happening. I don't know why. It's a certain foreboding ... a funny feeling ... vultures.
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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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#55. I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising.
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#56. The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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#57. The beauty of the band was you never knew what was going to come out next.
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#58. 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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#59. 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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#60. The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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#61. Actually, I'm getting one made up with eight necks and I'm going to get a wheelwright to make a big rim around it and then I can do cartwheels off the stage.
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#62. I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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#63. 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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#64. I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.
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#65. Everything that came later ... the roots are all there in the first album.
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#66. Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.
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#67. You've got to capture as much of the room sound as possible. That's the very essence of it.
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#68. I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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#69. There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but that's the way I see it. I think that's what it's all about. The drive, the fire, the passion - it all comes out on the guitar.
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#70. 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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