Song Quotes by Jimmy Page

'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.

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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

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Led Zeppelin wasn't a corporate entity.

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I was always good at hearing complete arrangements in my head.

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I really don't listen to Led Zeppelin that much.

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I have one of those gravel-y voices with no range to it.

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I liked the Sex Pistols' music. I thought it was superb.

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It was an extraordinary connection, the synergy within the band. There was an area of ESP between Robert Plant, John Paul Jones,…

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I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into…

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You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

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My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records.

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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

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My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.

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I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and…

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The re-releases have more than doubled the amount of Led Zeppelin work out there. I wanted it done authoritatively, 'cause I was…

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There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of…

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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an…

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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can…

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The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those…

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I've never mastered the guitar. Either I was playing it, or it was playing me; it depends how you look at it.…

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I wanted to emulate music from America - young punks playing rock n' roll is what it was. I read part of…

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Nobody could have predicted the effect of John Bonham's drum introduction on 'Good Times, Bad Times,' because no matter what he'd played…

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There's such a currency to Led Zeppelin, or the members of Led Zeppelin. If I put it to you this way, on…

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Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I…

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There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This…

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You get a chance like that maybe once in your lifetime, and you are lucky to sustain it over that period of…

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... we kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every…

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Led Zeppelin didn't get that kind of Beatles screaming. We had a more sort of macho crowd. But I remember once in…

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If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid,…

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We were never a band that did 96 takes of the same thing. I had heard of groups that were into that…

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The Stones are great and always have been. Jagger's lyrics are just amazing. Right on the ball every time.

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I'm involved in all things musical. It's all consuming, even if it doesn't necessarily manifest as a record or a concert.

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Led Zeppelin isn't done yet, quite clearly, because every year since 1968 there's been new fans.

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Listening to John Bonham is just a sheer celebration of his playing - it can't help but fill you with so much…

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The thing about Led Zeppelin was that it was always four musicians at the top of their game, but they could play…

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There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.

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Led Zeppelin was an affair of the heart. Each of the members was important to the sum total of what we were.

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Certainly, as a guitarist, I was aware of descending chromatic lines and arpeggios long before 1968.

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Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it…

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