Jimmy Page Quotes

From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

All my favorite bands are the ones that push the limits and boundaries.

There are a lot of great recording artists, like Jack White and Jack Johnson, who stay confined inside a very small box, but I'm more like Bon Iver, who recorded an album with programmed drums, and the next record was totally organic. I get that.

You have got to stress the freedom of music to really branch out and be universal.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

It has endless possibilities, and but what we do with our arrangements, we move the borders of cello playing and discover new ways of new techniques of cello playing.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

It's a very subjective, personal, instinctive approach as musicians of saying, 'We don't want to replace what's around; we just want to widen the possibilities.'

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

Music should always be an adventure.

I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis, so we were trying to do things in different styles.

I'm constantly evolving as a musician.

I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.

I think it's healthy to have a lot of different styles within a genre. It makes it much more interesting.

I'm not interested in re-creating the same blues I love so much. I'm interested in pushing boundaries.

I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.

Especially with Fantomas, i'm just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can't get away with.

I don't want to write the same song over and over again.

I always want to keep moving musically and trying new things.