Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
JIMMY PAGEI always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.
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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 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’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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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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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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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 don’t care what critics and other people think.
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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 have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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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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