The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
JIMMY PAGEI’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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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.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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I like change and I like contrast.
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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 over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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 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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