I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
JIMMY PAGEThe element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
-
-
I will still carry on changing all the time.
JIMMY PAGE -
You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
JIMMY PAGE -
I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
JIMMY PAGE -
My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
JIMMY PAGE -
The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
JIMMY PAGE -
Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
JIMMY PAGE -
There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
JIMMY PAGE -
The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
JIMMY PAGE -
There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
JIMMY PAGE -
The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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 -
So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
JIMMY PAGE -
I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
JIMMY PAGE -
But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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.
JIMMY PAGE