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.
JIMMY PAGEI’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
-
-
My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
JIMMY PAGE -
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
JIMMY PAGE -
I don’t care what critics and other people think.
JIMMY PAGE -
The 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 PAGE -
You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
JIMMY PAGE -
I 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 PAGE -
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
JIMMY PAGE -
There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
JIMMY PAGE -
I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
JIMMY PAGE -
Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
JIMMY PAGE -
I spend a lot of time near water.
JIMMY PAGE -
Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
JIMMY PAGE -
Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
JIMMY PAGE -
I’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
JIMMY PAGE -
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.
JIMMY PAGE