Jimmy Page Quotes

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.

So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.

Let’s just say I’m like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it’s time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing – one that couldn’t fly away.’

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 myself through guitar.

Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.

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.

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.

I will still carry on changing all the time.

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.

The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.

Led Zeppelin didn’t get that kind of Beatles screaming. We had a more sort of macho crowd. But I remember once in the early days of The Yardbirds, we were playing on an ice rink, and the stage was mobbed by screaming girls. I had my clothes torn off me. That’s a really uncomfortable experience, let me tell you.