My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
JIMMY PAGEThere is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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 blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
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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 always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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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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I spend a lot of time near water.
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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.
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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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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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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 will still carry on changing all the time.
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I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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