Jimmy Page Quotes

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.

I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.

There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.

I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.

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.

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.

The beauty of the band was you never knew what was going to come out next.

But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.

No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.

I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.

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.

I'm attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.

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.

I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.

I'm very fortunate because I love what I'm doing.

Actually, I'm getting one made up with eight necks and I'm going to get a wheelwright to make a big rim around it and then I can do cartwheels off the stage.

All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.

I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.

Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.

The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

I don't go walking into things blind.

Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.

I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.

I don't care what critics and other people think.

Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.

A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

I like change and I like contrast.

There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me.

The only term I won't accept is "genius."

You get as much out of rock & roll artistically as you put into it. There's nobody who can teach you. You're on your own and that's what I find so fascinating about it.

I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.

You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.

When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.

But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.

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.

I don't like being stuck in one situation, day to day.

I will still carry on changing all the time.

You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.

I don't feel I have to top myself at all.

The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.

You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.

I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don't really care about The Next Big Thing.

It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.

I spend a lot of time near water.

Seeing people's faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.

The one person who's disappeared out of the business is the A&R man. Because the listener at home becomes the A&R man. He's the one who chooses what tracks he wants on the album. And that's cool.

'Communication Breakdown' - it was punchy and direct, with a real attitude that was different to other bands going around.

You've got to capture as much of the room sound as possible. That's the very essence of it.