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.
JIMMY PAGESeeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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There’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.
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I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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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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 think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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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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Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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I like change and I like contrast.
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