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.
JIMMY PAGEThere’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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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Let’s just say I’m like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it’s time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing – one that couldn’t fly away.’
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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 over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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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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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 spend a lot of time near water.
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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 think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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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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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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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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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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 bet you can’t play slide piano.
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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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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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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 can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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