Jimmy Page Quotes
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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'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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I remember one particular occasion when I hadn't played a solo for, quite literally, a couple of months. And I was asked to play a solo on a rock & roll thing. I played it and felt that what I'd done was absolute crap. I was so disgusted with myself that I made my mind up that I had to get out of it. It was messing me right up.
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I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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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.
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You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.
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I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.
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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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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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Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.
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I don't care what critics and other people think.
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me.
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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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Seeing people's faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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I'm very fortunate because I love what I'm doing.
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Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.
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I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or drums, which was what I was playing, at the time. But, I got so much from mariachi bands that were constantly playing in the neighborhood.
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I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.
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I don't feel I have to top myself at all.