Jimmy Page Quotes
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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 will still carry on changing all the time.
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I don't feel I have to top myself at all.
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We were never a band that did 96 takes of the same thing. I had heard of groups that were into that kind of excess around that time. They'd work on the same track for three or four days and then work on it some more, but that's clearly not the way to record an album. If the track isn't happening and it creates some sort of psychological barrier, even after an hour or two, then you should stop and do something else. Go out: go to the pub, or a restaurant or something. Or play another song.
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I don't go walking into things blind.
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The only term I won't accept is "genius."
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I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going.
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There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.
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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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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.
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Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't think he was wrong.
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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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There's such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar... flamenco, jazz, rock, blues... you name it, it's there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.