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
teacher school men
If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
knowing needs able
The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
spontaneity moments mood
You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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.
years guitar my-favorite
My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.
guitar mouths communicate
I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
appetite all-things worldly
I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
communication kids thinking
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.
character guitar firsts
Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.
technique emotion deals
I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
angel journey wings
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.'
believe may i-believe
I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.
music-is let-me has-beens
Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
faced hope plight
I think when you're faced with a plight that's inescapable, and there's something you can do about it, you hope you can make a difference.