Jimmy Page Quotes
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I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
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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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You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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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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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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I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.
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Seeing people's faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.
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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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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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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 think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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I don't care what critics and other people think.
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I don't like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, "I'm only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world." I don't like to say that to people either. But, I do think there's a loss of romance.
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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 very fortunate because I love what I'm doing.
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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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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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I don't feel I have to top myself at all.
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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 don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.