Jimmy Page Quotes

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.

I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit.

I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.

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

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

I think probably with any performer, but maybe with rock music especially, the audience wants to see the singer being real, and exploring, and not doing a rehearsed routine, so I'm just constantly looking for new things to try. I'm really curious out there, and my curiosity has led me into all kinds of bizarre situations.

I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!

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

I think of each record as different and not having very much in common with what went before or what comes next.

I think if anything, what 'The Astonishing' proved is that we're always going to experiment.

Musically, I always wanted to experiment.

I wasn't trying to sound like anybody else. Basically, I was just experimenting all over the place.

I'll never stick to one sound, I switch it up.

I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.

Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.

I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.