Jimmy Page Quotes
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You never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best.
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Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.
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Actually, I'm getting one made up with eight necks and I'm going to get a wheelwright to make a big rim around it and then I can do cartwheels off the stage.
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You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.
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I remember one particular occasion when I hadn't played a solo for, quite literally, a couple of months. And I was asked to play a solo on a rock & roll thing. I played it and felt that what I'd done was absolute crap. I was so disgusted with myself that I made my mind up that I had to get out of it. It was messing me right up.
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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'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.
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I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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Seeing people's faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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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'm very fortunate because I love what I'm doing.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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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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Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.
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I don't care what critics and other people think.
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I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.
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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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I will still carry on changing all the time.