Quotes from Jimmy Page

The passing of John Bonham... Let's just put it... Before we say, 'the passing of John Bonham,' the introduction of John Bonham on the first album and 'Good Times Bad Times,' it changes drumming overnight.

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.

I have one of those gravel-y voices with no range to it.

You want that - peers respecting what you're doing.

The benchmark of quality I go for is pretty high.

'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.

I liked the Sex Pistols' music. I thought it was superb.

If you write a written book, you're gonna get slowed up by lawyers wanting to see what you say about this person, that person - I couldn't be bothered with it.

Every album that I've attempted, I suppose, has been different - it's bound to be.

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

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

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.

The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

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

You shouldn't really have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound good. It should all be done with microphones and microphone placement.

I was really competitive with myself.

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 involved in all things musical. It's all consuming, even if it doesn't necessarily manifest as a record or a concert.

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

Nobody could have predicted the effect of John Bonham's drum introduction on 'Good Times, Bad Times,' because no matter what he'd played in before, he'd never had the chance to flex his muscles and play like John Bonham.

I play like I play. You hear it on 'Celebration Day.' It's pretty good for a one-night shot.

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

I am very good at remembering music and am absolutely certain that I never heard 'Taurus' until 2014.