Jimmy Page Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

“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.”

“Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.”

“Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'”

“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 drummers that ever lived.”

“I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.”

“I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising.”