I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
JIMMY PAGEOnce 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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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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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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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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Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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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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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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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 can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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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 don’t care what critics and other people think.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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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There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
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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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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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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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I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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