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.
JIMMY PAGEYou don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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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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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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I’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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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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The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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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.
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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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