My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
JIMMY PAGEEverything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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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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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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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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I’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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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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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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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’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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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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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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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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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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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
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You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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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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Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.
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I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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I like change and I like contrast.
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