Music Quotes by Jimmy Page

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

— Jimmy Page

I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don't really care about The Next Big Thing.

— Jimmy Page

There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.

— Jimmy Page

With Led Zeppelin, it has always been that mystique of how the music is done - how it works, why it works.

— Jimmy Page

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

— Jimmy Page

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

— Jimmy Page

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

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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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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…

— Jimmy Page

There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if…

— Jimmy Page

There's always music that moves me. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It's…

— Jimmy Page

The thing about Led Zeppelin was that it was always four musicians at the top of their game, but they could play…

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So far I've been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What…

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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

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You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it.…

— Jimmy Page

Our intent with Led Zeppelin was not to get caught up in the singles' market, but to make albums where you could…

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... you never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you…

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... we kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every…

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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,…

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There's such a currency to Led Zeppelin, or the members of Led Zeppelin. If I put it to you this way, on…

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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…

— Jimmy Page

When I was still in the Yardbirds, our producer, Mickie Most, would always try to get us to record all these horrible…

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We went in and recorded exactly where we were at that point in time. I think because of the quality of musicianship…

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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,'…

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That's the music that I play at home all the time, Joni Mitchell. Court and Spark I love because I'd always hoped…

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If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid,…

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

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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…

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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

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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…

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Because somebody plays guitar, why does it mean they need a singer? Because people already have this image of things? No, I'll…

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There's so many different styles and facets of the 360-degree musical sphere to listen to. From tribal to classical music, it's all…

— Jimmy Page

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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You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how…

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When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock &…

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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…

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I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.

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There's music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and…

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From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone before - whether…

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It's good to be in a position to know that I've inspired musicians, from what I've learned to lay down personally, and…

— Jimmy Page