You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
JIMMY PAGEI’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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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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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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If you’re working at the factory and you’re cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You’ll just make yourself ill.
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The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
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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 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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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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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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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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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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I’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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