I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
JIMMY PAGEI 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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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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