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.
JIMMY PAGEThere’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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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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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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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’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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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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The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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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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Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can’t really compare it to how it is today.
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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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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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