My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
JIMMY PAGEMy 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.
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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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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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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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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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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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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
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I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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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 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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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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When 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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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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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 very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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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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