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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More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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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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There 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.
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I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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I like change and I like contrast.
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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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When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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I know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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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.
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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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