So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
JIMMY PAGEI’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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 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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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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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 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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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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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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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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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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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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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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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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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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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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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