There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
JIMMY PAGESo far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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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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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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 don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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I know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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A lot of people can’t be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn’t bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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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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Let’s just say I’m like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it’s time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing – one that couldn’t fly away.’
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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