“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
“I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.” WayWantedGuitarVehicle Author:Jimmy Page
“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.” ThinkingMenWayPlayYoungCoursesOpportunityForceBandGuitarTechniqueYoung ManDrummerPhenomenalZeppelins Author:Jimmy Page
“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.” ThinkingWayPassionViewsFirePlayerGuitarPoint Of ViewSensitivityGuitar PlayerAcousticsAcoustic GuitarSynthesizers Author:Jimmy Page
“I'm obsessed - not just interested, obsessed - with folk music, street music, the parallels between a country's street music and its so-called classical and intellectual music, the way certain scales have travelled right across the globe. All this ethnological and musical interaction fascinates me. Have you heard any trance music? That's the thing.” WayCountryCertainHeardStreetsIntellectualMusicalFolksScalesObsessedInteractionGlobesParallelsFolk MusicTrance Author:Jimmy Page
“When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there's a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.” WayLongTogetherHellRecordsRocksMusicianStructureCompareLong WayClassical MusicClassical Musicians Author:Jimmy Page
“The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.” WaySchoolStreetsRocksTaughtFolksFolk Music 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
“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 reactions to the third album, that people couldn't understand why that record wasn't a direct continuation of the second album. And then people said we were a hype and all, which was the furthest thing from what we were. So we just said, `let's put out an album with no title at all!' That way, either people like it or they don't... but we still got bad reviews!” PeopleWayWellsSaidStillsRecordsDirectThirdsAlbumsReactionsTitlesFedsReviewsHypeFed UpContinuationZeppelinsBad Reviews Author:Jimmy Page
“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.” WayYearsPlayIndividualWishStyleIdentityPeriodsGuitarAlbums Author:Jimmy Page
“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.” WayWritingKindDoeHouseMagicWorshipDevilAll KindsGet UpIntrigue 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
