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.
JIMMY PAGEI love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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If you’re working at the factory and you’re cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You’ll just make yourself ill.
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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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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 feel I have to top myself at all.
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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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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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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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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’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
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Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can’t really compare it to how it is today.
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I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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