I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
JIMMY PAGEI think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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There’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.
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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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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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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I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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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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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 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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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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 always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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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.
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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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