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 PAGEWhen you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there’s a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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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’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.
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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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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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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 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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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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