Jimmy Page Quotes

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Jimmy Page

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 9, 1944

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

Jimmy Page

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

Jimmy Page

If people want to find things, they find them themselves.

Jimmy Page

Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

Jimmy Page

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

Jimmy Page

If I pick up a guitar, I don't practise scales. I never have. I come up with something I haven't done before, new approaches to chord sequences, riffs, rhythms, so it becomes composition. It's not like the music I'm doing is just a single thread.

Jimmy Page

The album's not dead for me; I still buy vinyl albums.

Jimmy Page

That's one of the problems with the Zeppelin stuff. It sounds ridiculous on MP3. You can't hear what's there properly.

Jimmy Page

We weren't making money in the Yardbirds.

Jimmy Page

I'm not a guitar hero.

Jimmy Page

I wasn't on 'You Really Got Me,' but I did play on the Kinks' records.

Jimmy Page

I don't think drums had ever sounded so big until Led Zeppelin's first album.

Jimmy Page

From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone before - whether it was approaching the blues or folk music like 'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You': nothing existed like that.

Jimmy Page

It was an extraordinary connection, the synergy within the band. There was an area of ESP between Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, and myself.

Jimmy Page

The Stones are great and always have been. Jagger's lyrics are just amazing. Right on the ball every time.

Jimmy Page

The instruments that bleed into each other are what creates the ambience. Once you start cleaning everything up, you lose it. You lose that sort of halo that bleeding creates. Then if you eliminate the halo, you have to go back and put in some artificial reverb, which is never as good.

Jimmy Page

You get a chance like that maybe once in your lifetime, and you are lucky to sustain it over that period of time. It doesn't mean to say that whatever I do in the future has no substance to it - I may present some new material I've got, and there are definitely new angles of doing it - but I'm not looking to recreate another Led Zeppelin.

Jimmy Page

Traveling the world was a constant thing, rich with experiences. But all of it was relative to being able to play live onstage and really stretch out.

Jimmy Page

I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.

Jimmy Page

I was excited about opening for Vanilla Fudge because I was a big fan of theirs.

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