You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
JIMMY PAGEMusic is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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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 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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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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 guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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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 don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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