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 PAGEOnce 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 PAGEI always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
JIMMY PAGEThe 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.
JIMMY PAGESo many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
JIMMY PAGEIf 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.
JIMMY PAGEEvery musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
JIMMY PAGEI’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
JIMMY PAGEI spend a lot of time near water.
JIMMY PAGEBut 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.
JIMMY PAGESo far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
JIMMY PAGEThere are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
JIMMY PAGEI 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.
JIMMY PAGEThe 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 don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
JIMMY PAGEI’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
JIMMY PAGEI 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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