I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
JIMMY PAGEI do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.
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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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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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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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I spend a lot of time near water.
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Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
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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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I know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
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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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