My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
JIMMY PAGEMy vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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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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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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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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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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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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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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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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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When 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.
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I know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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