Jimmy Page Quotes

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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 army, a guitar army. ...…
• I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
• Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I think my greatest…
• We went in and recorded exactly where we were at that point in time. I think because of the quality of musicianship of the band…
• If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid, because the whole…
• I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.
• I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
• We were never a band that did 96 takes of the same thing. I had heard of groups that were into that kind of excess…
• Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.
• The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from…
• Well, Led Zeppelin IV! That's it really. I'll tell you why the album had no title - because we were so fed up with the…
• There was no working title for the album. The record-jacket designer said `When I think of the group, I always think of power and force.…
• 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…
• Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to play for another…
• I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
• Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.
• 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.…
• 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…
• I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
• When 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.…

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