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.
JIMMY PAGEYou 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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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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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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’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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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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Right 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.
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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 record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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 love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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Once 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.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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