I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
JIMMY PAGEIf 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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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.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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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 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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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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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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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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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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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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