Jimmy Page Quotes

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Jimmy Page

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 9, 1944

There's such a currency to Led Zeppelin, or the members of Led Zeppelin. If I put it to you this way, on the run-up to the O2 concert, the only music that we played was music of Led Zeppelin - the past catalog stuff; that's what we played on the way towards shaping up the set list for that. But we played really, really well.

Jimmy Page

My guitar playing touches so many different areas of the form, but the important thing is what it represents across the form.

Jimmy Page

The Yardbirds folded in 1968, and within a handful of months, Led Zeppelin was not only a band but also a very successful one.

Jimmy Page

From meeting Robert Plant, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, teaming up, rehearsing, playing selected gigs outside of Britain, coming back into Olympic Studios to record the first album, and then going to America, which we crack open like a nut with the debut record - all that happened, literally, within months.

Jimmy Page

Led Zeppelin isn't done yet, quite clearly, because every year since 1968 there's been new fans.

Jimmy Page

The re-releases have more than doubled the amount of Led Zeppelin work out there. I wanted it done authoritatively, 'cause I was the one writing the stuff; I was the producer and mixer. I don't think it's any more weird than writing your autobiography.

Jimmy Page

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.

Jimmy Page

The Yardbirds sort of disbanded, and I was disappointed because I thought what we were doing was really good. I thought we were really onto something. I thought I was really onto something with these ideas that I had.

Jimmy Page

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. There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin.

Jimmy Page

In the wake of the San Francisco scene, ears were alive. It was a listening generation.

Jimmy Page

I was really competitive with myself.

Jimmy Page

You want that - peers respecting what you're doing.

Jimmy Page

I always want to do my very best, and it's frustrating to have something hold me back.

Jimmy Page

I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia. But it's not. It's airplanes, hotel rooms, limousines, and armed guards standing outside rooms. I don't get off on that part of it at all.

Jimmy Page

Led Zeppelin wasn't a corporate entity.

Jimmy Page

Led Zeppelin was an affair of the heart. Each of the members was important to the sum total of what we were.

Jimmy Page

I have one of those gravel-y voices with no range to it.

Jimmy Page

Time sometimes passes quite quickly.

Jimmy Page

I'm pretty loyal to my guitars, you know, but then they're pretty loyal to me, too.

Jimmy Page

How many guitars do I have? I don't know. I don't know! But I think the answer to it is, more than I can play at any one point in time. Even though I do have double necks, so I can try and play more than at one time!

Jimmy Page