I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
JIMMY PAGEIf you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I like change and I like contrast.
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The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
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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 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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I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
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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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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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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 really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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I guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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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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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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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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I’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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