I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
JIMMY PAGEI’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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I guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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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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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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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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