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.
JIMMY PAGEI think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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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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 have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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