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.
JIMMY PAGEEvery musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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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 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 think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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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 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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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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The 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.
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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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 like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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 love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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