I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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There’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.
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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’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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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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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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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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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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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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
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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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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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.
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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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I guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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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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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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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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