Top 50 Jimmy Page Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Jimmy Page

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

— Jimmy Page

3. “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.”

— Jimmy Page

4. “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.’”

— Jimmy Page

5. “I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.”

— Jimmy Page

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

— Jimmy Page

7. “I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.”

— Jimmy Page

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

— Jimmy Page

9. “My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on ‘Reelin’ In The Years’.”

— Jimmy Page

10. “Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.”

— Jimmy Page

11. “I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.”

— Jimmy Page

12. “Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.”

— Jimmy Page

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

— Jimmy Page

14. “I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.”

— Jimmy Page

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

— Jimmy Page

16. “No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I’m not allowed out in daylight hours.”

— Jimmy Page

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

— Jimmy Page

18. “There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.”

— Jimmy Page

19. “I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.”

— Jimmy Page

20. “I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.”

— Jimmy Page

21. “When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.”

— Jimmy Page

22. “There’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.”

— Jimmy Page

23. “But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he’d never heard my playing, and I’d defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.”

— Jimmy Page

24. “I’m trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I’m off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I’ve got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I’m going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.”

— Jimmy Page

25. “My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.”

— Jimmy Page

26. “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.”

— Jimmy Page

27. “My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.”

— Jimmy Page

28. “There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin. John Bonham, phenomenal drummer, young man with his technique, but do you think he would ever have the opportunity to play like that in another band? Of course he hadn’t.”

— Jimmy Page

29. “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.”

— Jimmy Page

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

— Jimmy Page

31. “Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.”

— Jimmy Page

32. “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.”

— Jimmy Page

33. “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.”

— Jimmy Page

34. “I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.”

— Jimmy Page

35. “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.”

— Jimmy Page

36. “I bet you can’t play slide piano.”

— Jimmy Page

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

— Jimmy Page

38. “Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can’t say if anything is perfect.”

— Jimmy Page

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

— Jimmy Page

40. “I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.”

— Jimmy Page

41. “Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.”

— Jimmy Page

42. “Actually, I’m getting one made up with eight necks and I’m going to get a wheelwright to make a big rim around it and then I can do cartwheels off the stage.”

— Jimmy Page

43. “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.”

— Jimmy Page

44. “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.”

— Jimmy Page

45. “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.”

— Jimmy Page

46. “Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.”

— Jimmy Page

47. “The beauty of the band was you never knew what was going to come out next.”

— Jimmy Page

48. “I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.”

— Jimmy Page

49. “Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn’t play that. You can’t perform that on guitar or drums, which was what I was playing, at the time. But, I got so much from mariachi bands that were constantly playing in the neighborhood.”

— Jimmy Page

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

— Jimmy Page