You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it. Jimmy Page More Quotes by Jimmy Page More Quotes From Jimmy Page 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 horizon band music Every record is a portrait of the band at that time. Jimmy Page portraits records band 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 me. Jimmy Page levels lasts heaven 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 20 years, but I don't know... I just can't see it happening. I don't know why. It's a certain foreboding... a funny feeling... vultures. Jimmy Page play feelings years I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me. Jimmy Page simple play people From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds. Jimmy Page guitar mean thinking 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. Jimmy Page guitar play years I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one. Jimmy Page guitarist needed two The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really. Jimmy Page guitar imagination wise I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz. Jimmy Page optimistic rocks music There's music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you're playing it or you're receptive, as an audience. Jimmy Page audience heard people I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now. Jimmy Page magic house writing 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 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. ... I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising. ... I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing. Jimmy Page guitar army thinking No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours. Jimmy Page zeppelins coffins daylight I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here. Jimmy Page I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. Jimmy Page musician roots thinking I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing. Jimmy Page ought know-how knows There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me. Jimmy Page close-friends real people I don't care what critics and other people think. Jimmy Page care people thinking There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This isn't a nostalgia band playing the hits forever. If anything ever happened and somebody left - which I really can't see happening - I don't think we'd bother to carry on. The magic for me is as it is now. Jimmy Page forever long thinking
