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.
JIMMY PAGEWhen 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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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’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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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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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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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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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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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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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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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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