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.
JIMMY PAGESo far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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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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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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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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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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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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’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
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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 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 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 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’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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