I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
JIMMY PAGEI can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
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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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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.
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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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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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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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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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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 may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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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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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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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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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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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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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From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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I know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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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 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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