The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
JIMMY PAGEMy favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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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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If you’re working at the factory and you’re cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You’ll just make yourself ill.
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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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I like change and I like contrast.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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Once 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.
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