Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
JIMMY PAGEI like change and I like contrast.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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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 love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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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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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 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 don’t care what critics and other people think.
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This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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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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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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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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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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I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
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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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