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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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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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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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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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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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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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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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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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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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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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I like change and I like contrast.
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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 don’t go walking into things blind.
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