I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
JIMMY PAGEOnce 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be.
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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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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’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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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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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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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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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 really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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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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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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