Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
JIMMY PAGESeeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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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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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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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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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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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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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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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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 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’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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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 still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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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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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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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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Let’s just say I’m like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it’s time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing – one that couldn’t fly away.’
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
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