I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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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 don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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I like change and I like contrast.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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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 really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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