The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
JIMMY PAGEThe term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
JIMMY PAGEI can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
JIMMY PAGEI think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
JIMMY PAGEI 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 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.
JIMMY PAGEI 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.
JIMMY PAGEI don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
JIMMY PAGEI’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
JIMMY PAGEI’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
JIMMY PAGEI’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
JIMMY PAGEWhen 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.
JIMMY PAGEI will still carry on changing all the time.
JIMMY PAGEThe blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
JIMMY PAGEI really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
JIMMY PAGEThe key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
JIMMY PAGEThe only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
JIMMY PAGE