Jimmy Page Quotes

I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.

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

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

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

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

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.

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.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

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.

I'm attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.

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

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.

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.'

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.

Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I think my greatest achievement has been to create unexpected melodies and harmonies within a rock and roll framework. And as a producer I would like to be remembered as someone who was able to sustain a band of unquestionable individual talent, and push it to the forefront during its working career. I think I really captured the best of our output, growth, change and maturity on tape - the multifaceted gem that is Led Zeppelin.

I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.

I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.

I've never regretted anything I've ever done.

The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.

This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.

There's so much that can be done on the guitar. And that's what is so good about the guitar - everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it's all about.

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.

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

You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.