Jimmy Page Quotes

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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• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
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• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
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• The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
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• When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.

  

  K. Flay
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• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
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• I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.

  

  Yuna
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• I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.

  

  Lapo Elkann
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• Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
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• When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.

  

  G-Eazy
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• Americans do not have a good track record when it comes to preparing for disasters, unless they see a clear possibility of personally being in harms way.

  

  Irwin Redlener
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• The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

  

  Iggy Pop
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• I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.

  

  Edgar Wright
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• The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.

  

  Questlove
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• I'm always writing. And, I mean, I always counsel people when they call me a musician: I really do not have the skills of a musician. I really don't think like a musician, though I love music and I perform and sing.

  

  Patti Smith
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• But for me I think it's just about taking that time of reflection and contemplation. That's probably my process in every decision that I make: to make sure that I spend time just with myself, and really times of silence and mediation to go through that process; and music is a big part of that as well.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
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• I learned about poise and dignity, and I learned about what it means to be an African-American in television and what that requires in terms of what kind of position you take for yourself and how you define your own reality in a world that is still finding its footing, to say the least.

  

  Kat Graham
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• Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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  • Rock & Roll