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.
JIMMY PAGEI’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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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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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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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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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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 love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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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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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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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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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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