I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to... if people want to find things, they find them themselves.

Jimmy Page

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The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change. by Jimmy Page

The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.

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The only term I won't accept is "genius." by Jimmy Page

The only term I won't accept is "genius."

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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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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 there. If the bottom was to sag out of that, for God's sake, help us all.

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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don't really care... by Jimmy Page

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

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I spend a lot of time near water. by Jimmy Page

I spend a lot of time near water.

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

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You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race agains... by Jimmy Page

You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.

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I don't feel I have to top myself at all. by Jimmy Page

I don't feel I have to top myself at all.

You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing... by Jimmy Page

You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.

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I will still carry on changing all the time. by Jimmy Page

I will still carry on changing all the time.

But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.

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Actually, I'm getting one made up with eight necks and I'm going to get a wheelwright to make a big rim around it and then I can do cartwheels off the stage.

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I consider descending chromatic lines and arpeggiated chords basic skills learned by any student of the guitar.

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The passing of John Bonham... Let's just put it... Before we say, 'the passing of John Bonham,' the introduction of John Bonham on the first album and 'Good Times Bad Times,' it changes drumming overnight.

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From meeting Robert Plant, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, teaming up, rehearsing, playing selected gigs outside of Britain, coming back into Olympic Studios to record the first album, and then going to America, which we crack open like a nut with the debut record - all that happened, literally, within months.

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I'm not a guitar hero. by Jimmy Page

I'm not a guitar hero.

I've never mastered the guitar. Either I was playing it, or it was playing me; it depends how you look at it. As a kid, the only things I had to do was go to school, do my homework, and play guitar.

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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 it was approaching the blues or folk music like 'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You': nothing existed like that.

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Time sometimes passes quite quickly. by Jimmy Page

Time sometimes passes quite quickly.

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