I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
JIMMY PAGEYou can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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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’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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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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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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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 don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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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I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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