No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours. Jimmy Page More Quotes by Jimmy Page More Quotes From Jimmy Page If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up. Jimmy Page teacher men school 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. Jimmy Page not-afraid mystery race 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 Page cursing get-up cost You can't expect to be the same person you were three years ago. Some people expect you to be and can't come to terms with the fact that if a year has elapsed between LPs, that means one year's worth of changes. The material consequently is affected by that, the lyrics are affected by that... the music too. Jimmy Page mean people years I'm still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I've found that I've developed fears I never had before... fears of heights, claustrophobia... only in cities, though, never in the country. Jimmy Page drunk cities country 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 Page guitar love-is world Led Zeppelin didn't get that kind of Beatles screaming. We had a more sort of macho crowd. But I remember once in the early days of The Yardbirds, we were playing on an ice rink, and the stage was mobbed by screaming girls. I had my clothes torn off me. That's a really uncomfortable experience, let me tell you. Jimmy Page clothes ice girl I don't want to get too dippy about all this. If you take the view of the scientist and everything is in a state of vibration, then every note is a vibration, which has a certain frequency, and you know that if you put 40 beats into a frequency it's going to be the same note every time. You take that into infrasound and people can be made to be sick, actually killed. Taking it the other way, not to be too depressing, what about euphoria, etc., and what about consciousness being totally... no, I won't go into that one. Time warps. Jimmy Page depressing views people Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree. Jimmy Page life-changing degrees musician That's the music that I play at home all the time, Joni Mitchell. Court and Spark I love because I'd always hoped that she'd work with a band. But the main thing with Joni is that she's able to look at something that's happened to her, draw back and crystallize the whole situation, then write about it. She brings tears to my eyes, what more can I say? It's bloody eerie. I can relate so much to what she says. "Now old friends are acting strange/They shake their heads/They say I've changed." Jimmy Page eye home writing I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing. Jimmy Page angel broken wings I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure. Jimmy Page under-pressure exhausted pressure Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.' Jimmy Page musician heaven long There's so much that can be done on the guitar. And that's what is so good about the guitar - everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it's all about. Jimmy Page good-times guitar done There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement. Jimmy Page distance guitar two I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it. Jimmy Page picks technique play We kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every time. Many bands would have some success and, because they were locked into having a single - something we didn't have to worry about - they had to make sure there was something similar on the next album ... that was never the idea with Led Zeppelin .. the goal was to keep that spark of spontaneity at all times. Jimmy Page music past moving 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. Jimmy Page artist perfect way This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock. Jimmy Page glitter rocks next-week I'm obsessed - not just interested, obsessed - with folk music, street music, the parallels between a country's street music and its so-called classical and intellectual music, the way certain scales have travelled right across the globe. All this ethnological and musical interaction fascinates me. Have you heard any trance music? That's the thing. Jimmy Page musical intellectual country
