My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
JIMMY PAGESeeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there’s a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
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I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can’t really compare it to how it is today.
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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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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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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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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 can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy 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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