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 PAGEI’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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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 attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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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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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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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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If you’re working at the factory and you’re cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You’ll just make yourself ill.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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There’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.
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From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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