I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
JIMMY PAGEI’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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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.’
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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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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 always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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I like change and I like contrast.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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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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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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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A lot of people can’t be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn’t bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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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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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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