Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page
James Patrick Page, OBE is an English musician, songwriter, and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth9 January 1944
guitar years play
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.
passion player thinking
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.
depressing views sick
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.
pressure exhausted under-pressure
I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
wise guitar imagination
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.
would-be utopia ifs
I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
music years determined
... 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 ...
music band territory
... 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 ...
simple play people
I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
music rocks important
...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...
long heaven want
Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'
life-changing fans musician
Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
play piano slides
I bet you can't play slide piano.
loss thinking people
I don't like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, "I'm only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world." I don't like to say that to people either. But, I do think there's a loss of romance.