Jimmy Page Quotes
You get as much out of rock & roll artistically as you put into it. There's nobody who can teach you. You're on your own and that's what I find so fascinating about it.
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Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.
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Hollywood has this incredible ability to make a lot of noise.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.
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Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.
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We have a lot of friends who are hunters. And you know what? Come hunting season, man, they head to the woods, you know. And again, this country was built on God and guns, folks. I mean, it really was.
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I was thrilled as a kid to point out my sister as she danced and sang on the stage, and she was pretty good artistically. She was a great inspiration to me. She was the one who sort of led me into show business.
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I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.
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A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.
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I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
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He had a very clear vision of what he wanted to do artistically, visually, ... I wanted to be part of that vision. It seemed so beautiful and interesting.
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Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.
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I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.
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It's basically against the whole idea of what always made rock&roll music interesting to me. I thought it was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expressions of rebellion. It was one channel you could take without havin' to kiss ass, you know? And right now it just seems like they're on a big daisy chain, each kissin' each other's asses.
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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.
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One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.
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You get as much out of rock & roll artistically as you put into it. There's nobody who can teach you. You're on your own and that's what I find so fascinating about it.
