I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
JIMMY PAGEThere’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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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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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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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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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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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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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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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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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 always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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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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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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