I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
JIMMY PAGEThis week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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There’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.
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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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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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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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 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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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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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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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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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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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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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 very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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I don’t go walking into things blind.
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I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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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 key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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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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