I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia. Jimmy Page More Quotes by Jimmy Page More Quotes From 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 musicianplaypeople I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques. Jimmy Page mosquestryinglooks There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but that's the way I see it. I think that's what it's all about. The drive, the fire, the passion - it all comes out on the guitar. Jimmy Page passionplayerthinking 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 around that time. They'd work on the same track for three or four days and then work on it some more, but that's clearly not the way to record an album. If the track isn't happening and it creates some sort of psychological barrier, even after an hour or two, then you should stop and do something else. Go out: go to the pub, or a restaurant or something. Or play another song. Jimmy Page playsongtwo My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence. Jimmy Page incompetencefingerscrosses 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. I'm a guitarist. Jimmy Page guitaristbloodystates I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that's a strong character, the stronger the person is. Jimmy Page strongcharacterbelieve Domesticity and all that isn't really for me. Jimmy Page domesticity I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going. Jimmy Page patternsi-canknows Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived. Jimmy Page drummermomentsdoubt I bet you can't play slide piano. Jimmy Page pianoslidesplay 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 rockswayschool There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin. John Bonham, phenomenal drummer, young man with his technique, but do you think he would ever have the opportunity to play like that in another band? Of course he hadn't. Jimmy Page opportunitymenthinking I deal in emotions. It's the harmonic side that's important. That's the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I've got to keep at it. Jimmy Page importantsidesmean You never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best. Jimmy Page determinedmusicyears 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 rocksmusicimportant 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 has given it the longevity. I thought the music would endure, I didn't think I would ... I always thought I'd be dead by 30, then dead by 40 and on and on. Now I'm 55 so I didn't even die at 50. Jimmy Page bandqualitythinking 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. There's a definite presence there.' That was it. He wanted to call it `Obelisk'. To me, it was more important what was behind the obelisk. The cover is very tongue-in-cheek, to be quite honest. Sort of a joke on 2001. I think it's quite amusing. Jimmy Page groupsimportantthinking 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 not-interestedwantpeople If you wanted to chart new territories and head off over the horizon, you had to make sure you weren't overly influenced by what others were doing ... so it didn't matter what other bands were doing ... we did what we were doing. Jimmy Page horizonbandmusic
