If you’re working at the factory and you’re cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You’ll just make yourself ill.
JIMMY PAGESometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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I’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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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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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.
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