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 PAGEMusic can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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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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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 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’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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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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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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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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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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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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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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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