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.
JIMMY PAGEI have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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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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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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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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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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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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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.
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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 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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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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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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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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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 greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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