I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
JIMMY PAGEI think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
JIMMY PAGEOnce I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
JIMMY PAGEI 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.
JIMMY PAGEYou can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
JIMMY PAGEI don’t go walking into things blind.
JIMMY PAGEI’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
JIMMY PAGEI have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
JIMMY PAGERight from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can’t really compare it to how it is today.
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?
JIMMY PAGEI believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
JIMMY PAGEThere’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.
JIMMY PAGEI’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.
JIMMY PAGEYou can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
JIMMY PAGEThere’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
JIMMY PAGEI can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
JIMMY PAGEI will still carry on changing all the time.
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