The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
JIMMY PAGEI’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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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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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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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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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious 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 have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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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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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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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 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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