Jimmy Page

“I consider descending chromatic lines and arpeggiated chords basic skills learned by any student of the guitar.”

“Certainly, as a guitarist, I was aware of descending chromatic lines and arpeggios long before 1968.”

“My guitar playing touches so many different areas of the form, but the important thing is what it represents across the form.”

“I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.”

“I've played guitar in so many different styles, and I want to revisit them all.”

“Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drumm...”

“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.”

“Because somebody plays guitar, why does it mean they need a singer? Because people already have this image of things? No, I'll put my music together, then think about whether I need to embel...”

“I wanted to emulate music from America - young punks playing rock n' roll is what it was. I read part of Keith Richards' autobiography, and it was totally parallel with me, learning from Ame...”

“Having the facility to have this multitrack at home, I could try experiments with sort of all of the instruments, giving them different treatments so they didn't actually sound, necessarily,...”

“In the Led Zeppelin shows of the Sixties and Seventies, it was the same numbers every night, but they were constantly in a state of flux. If I played something good, really substantial, I'd...”

“The Yardbirds folded in 1968, and within a handful of months, Led Zeppelin was not only a band but also a very successful one.”

“Because Led Zeppelin weren't having to worry about doing singles, each time we went in to record, it was a body of work for an album. So you could get the shift and the movement forwards as...”

“I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia. But it's not. It's airplanes, hotel rooms, limousines, and armed guards standing outside rooms. I don't get off on that part...”

“I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.”

“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 a...”

“My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.”

“The Stones are great and always have been. Jagger's lyrics are just amazing. Right on the ball every time.”

“It was an extraordinary connection, the synergy within the band. There was an area of ESP between Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, and myself.”

“I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.”