The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
JIMMY PAGEI 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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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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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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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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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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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 like change and I like contrast.
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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’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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