Quotes from Jimmy Page

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

I'm just a simple guy, I live from day to day. A ray of sunshine melts my frown and blows my blues away.

Listening to John Bonham is just a sheer celebration of his playing - it can't help but fill you with so much joy.

The whole thing about 'The Rover' is the whole swagger of it, the whole guitar attitude swagger. I'm afraid I've got to say it, but it's the sort of thing that is so apparent when you hear 'Rumble' by Link Wray - it's just total attitude, isn't it?

I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.

In the wake of the San Francisco scene, ears were alive. It was a listening generation.

I always want to do my very best, and it's frustrating to have something hold me back.

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

If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.

Time sometimes passes quite quickly.

I really love playing live - it's such a gas.

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

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

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.

I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.

I wasn't into jazz so much - I preferred things raw.

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

I'm pretty loyal to my guitars, you know, but then they're pretty loyal to me, too.

If I pick up a guitar, I don't practise scales. I never have. I come up with something I haven't done before, new approaches to chord sequences, riffs, rhythms, so it becomes composition. It's not like the music I'm doing is just a single thread.

Jack White is an extraordinary person because he's like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead.

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.

All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.

I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.

I do not recall ever seeing Spirit perform live.