Let’s just say I’m like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it’s time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing – one that couldn’t fly away.’
JIMMY PAGEMy favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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 don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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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I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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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 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 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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If you’re working at the factory and you’re cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You’ll just make yourself ill.
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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 spend a lot of time near water.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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I’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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