You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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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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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 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 don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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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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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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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 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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I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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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 at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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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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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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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 don’t go walking into things blind.
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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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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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