The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
JIMMY PAGEI 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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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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I spend a lot of time near water.
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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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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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