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.
JIMMY PAGEI don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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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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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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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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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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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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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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