Jimmy Page

Musician

1944-01-09

Quotes by Jimmy Page

• I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

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• You've got to capture as much of the room sound as possible. That's the very essence of it.

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• I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

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• You've got to capture as much of the room sound as possible. That's the very essence of it.

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• Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.

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• I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

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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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• Led Zeppelin was an affair of the heart. Each of the members was important to the sum total of what we were.

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• I liked the Sex Pistols' music. I thought it was superb.

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• The whole thing about 'The Rover' is the whole swagger of it, the whole guitar attitude swagger. I'm afraid I've got to say it, but it's the sort of thing that is so apparent when you hear 'Rumble' by Link Wray - it's just total attitude, isn't it?

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• It was an extraordinary connection, the synergy within the band. There was an area of ESP between Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, and myself.

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• I am very good at remembering music and am absolutely certain that I never heard 'Taurus' until 2014.

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• If I pick up a guitar, I don't practise scales. I never have. I come up with something I haven't done before, new approaches to chord sequences, riffs, rhythms, so it becomes composition. It's not like the music I'm doing is just a single thread.

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• I seem to have tireless energy when I get involved in things, on an almost OCD basis, which is a good way to do things because if you're gonna do something, you'd better make sure you do it well.

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• I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising.

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• 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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• I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia. But it's not. It's airplanes, hotel rooms, limousines, and armed guards standing outside rooms. I don't get off on that part of it at all.

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• 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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• I was excited about opening for Vanilla Fudge because I was a big fan of theirs.

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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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