My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
JIMMY PAGEMy favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
JIMMY PAGEI’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
JIMMY PAGEI’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
JIMMY PAGEA 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.
JIMMY PAGERight 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.
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.
JIMMY PAGEI’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.
JIMMY PAGEThere are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
JIMMY PAGEThere’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
JIMMY PAGEWhen you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there’s a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
JIMMY PAGESometimes, 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.
JIMMY PAGEThe 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.
JIMMY PAGEThe greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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.
JIMMY PAGEI 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.
JIMMY PAGEWhen I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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