I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
JIMMY PAGEMy favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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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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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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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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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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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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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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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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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 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 like change and I like contrast.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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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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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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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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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