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
states bloody guitarist
When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist.
mean thinking guitar
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.
frustration makeup technology
I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of the entity, and that restrictions would foul you up, lead to frustration which leads to violence, crime, mental breakdown, depending on what sort of makeup you have underneath. The further this age we're in now gets into technology and alienation, a lot of the points he's made seem to manifest themselves all down the line.
giving people isolation
A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
cds two impossible
But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.
together elements able
The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.
player thinking guitar
The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
albums enthusiasm
I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.
want copies i-can
I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.
zeppelins daylight coffins
No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.
mean play bass
Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.
years rehearsal wonderful
Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
zeppelins want kingdoms
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.
song years watches
(The Song Remains The Same) is not a great film, but there's no point in making excuses. It's just a reasonably honest statement of where we were at that particular time. It's very difficult for me to watch it now, but I'd like to see it in a year's time just to see how it stands up.