Jimmy Page Quotes

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Jimmy Page

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 9, 1944

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'

Jimmy Page

I really don't listen to Led Zeppelin that much.

Jimmy Page

I do know there's a lot of music where Led Zeppelin has been leant on. We didn't do anything about it. And I wouldn't want to, either.

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I'm involved in all things musical. It's all consuming, even if it doesn't necessarily manifest as a record or a concert.

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My first guitar was like a campfire guitar. And it was left at a house that my family had moved into... and the guitar was at the house. It was all strung up. It's normally something that would be beyond a bit of rubbish.

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Jack White is an extraordinary person because he's like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead.

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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.

Jimmy Page

If you write a written book, you're gonna get slowed up by lawyers wanting to see what you say about this person, that person - I couldn't be bothered with it.

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Listening to John Bonham is just a sheer celebration of his playing - it can't help but fill you with so much joy.

Jimmy Page

I prefer to hear an artist's work and what they can do, so as far as I'm concerned, I'd get a lot more out of a collection of songs to be able to understand what the musician is doing.

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'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.

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In the Led Zeppelin shows of the Sixties and Seventies, it was the same numbers every night, but they were constantly in a state of flux. If I played something good, really substantial, I'd stick it in again.

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I wasn't into jazz so much - I preferred things raw.

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I would say New York, Chicago, Memphis, and Los Angeles were my favorites.

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I wanted to emulate music from America - young punks playing rock n' roll is what it was. I read part of Keith Richards' autobiography, and it was totally parallel with me, learning from American records.

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The fourth album encapsulated some remarkable music that was really groundbreaking. We were able to have something like 'When the Levee Breaks,' which, sonically, was very menacing. But then you had the flip side: something like 'Going to California,' which is really intimate.

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I don't really know anything about sales figures, to be honest with you.

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You shouldn't really have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound good. It should all be done with microphones and microphone placement.

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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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When I was still in the Yardbirds, our producer, Mickie Most, would always try to get us to record all these horrible songs. During one session, we recorded 'Ten Little Indians,' an extremely silly song that featured a truly awful brass arrangement.

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