Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
JIMMY PAGEEvery record is a portrait of the band at that time.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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 really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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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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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 believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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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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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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Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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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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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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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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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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