You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
JIMMY PAGEThere are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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’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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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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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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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’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
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There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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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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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