I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
JIMMY PAGEOnce I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can’t really compare it to how it is today.
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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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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 are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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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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I spend a lot of time near water.
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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 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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