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.
JIMMY PAGEI 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.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on 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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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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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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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 may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.
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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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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be.
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