“There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement.” PeopleIfsShouldWellsTwoWholeUseAbleUsedSoundHellBalanceBandInstrumentsDistanceDepthGuitarStudiosToneMaximsMicrophonesMicsTrackingPlacement Author:Jimmy Page
“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.” IfsWayFeelsI CanDoneArtistPerfectEmotionPaintingPerformances Author:Jimmy Page
“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.” PeopleIfsAudienceHeardRelateReceptive Author:Jimmy Page
“Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard.” IfsNeedsHardEasyBitsInstrumentsGuitarExpensiveFriendlyUsersSteersGuitaristUser Friendly Author:Jimmy Page
“But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.” IfsWantSaidHeardKingdomsWant MeGuitaristYou Want MeZeppelinsIf You Want MeKingdom Come Author:Jimmy Page
“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.” IfsThinkingLongLeftForeverHappenedMagicBandPagesHappeningsPlantNostalgiaBotherJimmyZeppelinsJohn Paul Author:Jimmy Page
“I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.” IfsWould BeUtopia Author:Jimmy Page
“You can't expect to be the same person you were three years ago. Some people expect you to be and can't come to terms with the fact that if a year has elapsed between LPs, that means one year's worth of changes. The material consequently is affected by that, the lyrics are affected by that... the music too.” PeopleIfsYearsMeanPersonsFactsThreeTermMaterialsYears AgoAffectedThree Years Author:Jimmy Page
“There's so many different styles and facets of the 360-degree musical sphere to listen to. From tribal to classical music, it's all there. If the bottom was to sag out of that, for God's sake, help us all.” IfsDifferentHelpingStyleDegreesBottomMusicalSakeSpheresClassical MusicFacetsDifferent Styles Author:Jimmy Page
“If you're working at the factory and you're cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You'll just make yourself ill.” IfsCostIllGet UpFactoriesCursing Author:Jimmy Page
“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.” PeopleIfsWantNot Interested Author:Jimmy Page
“There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.” IfsCertainTermRocksGeniusStandardsIceApplicationClassical MusicTreading Author:Jimmy Page
“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.” IfsThinkingShouldMadeFeltHappenedBuildingArmyHarmonyStructureCriticsGuitarAlbumsSongwritingCompositionVocationAlways BelieveBuilding UpUncompromising Author:Jimmy Page
“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 thing that really lifted me then still lifted me during those other times. It was good medicine for me, and it still does that for me when I put something on. Isn't it wonderful that we've got all that good medicine? I think it's got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music. That's what it is. It's got to be, hasn't it? Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.” IfsThinkingDoeHas BeensStillsWholeKidsFeltRecordsWonderfulOne ThingCommunicationMassMusic IsLet MeMedicineConsistentlyDnaLet Me DownMass CommunicationOld Records Author:Jimmy Page
“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.” IfsWayShouldKindTwoPlaySongThreeHoursRecordsFourHeardGroupsBandHappeningsTrackAlbumsPsychologicalRestaurantsBarriersExcessPubs Author:Jimmy Page
“I don't want to get too dippy about all this. If you take the view of the scientist and everything is in a state of vibration, then every note is a vibration, which has a certain frequency, and you know that if you put 40 beats into a frequency it's going to be the same note every time. You take that into infrasound and people can be made to be sick, actually killed. Taking it the other way, not to be too depressing, what about euphoria, etc., and what about consciousness being totally... no, I won't go into that one. Time warps.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWantMadeStatesCertainViewsConsciousnessBeatsScientistSickNotesEtcOne TimeDepressingVibrationsFrequencyEuphoriaWarp Author: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.” IfsMatterWantedMusicBandHorizonTerritoryNew Territory Author:Jimmy Page
“If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.” IfsMenSchoolCreativeTeacherMess Author:Jimmy Page
“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.” IfsShouldMadeFeltHappenedStructureAlbums Author:Jimmy Page
