Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can’t really compare it to how it is today.
JIMMY PAGEYou can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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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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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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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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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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