Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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 at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
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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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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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Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.
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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 over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.
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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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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I don't care what critics and other people think.
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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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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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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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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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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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Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't think he was wrong.
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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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Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or drums, which was what I was playing, at the time. But, I got so much from mariachi bands that were constantly playing in the neighborhood.
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I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.