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.
JIMMY PAGEYou don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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I like change and I like contrast.
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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 have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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 key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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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