I don’t go walking into things blind.
JIMMY PAGEMusic can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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.
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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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The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
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I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
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There’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
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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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I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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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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Sometimes, 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.
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I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.
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Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
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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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So 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?
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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