Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
JIMMY PAGEThe blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.
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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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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’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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