Quote

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.

Jimmy Page

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jimmy Page
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 9
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
Songwriter
James Patrick Page
Jim Page
Rock
Applying
Rocks
Classical
Genius
Thin
Term
Ice
Start
Application
Certain
Standard
Music
Allows
Rollers
Standards
Treading

More quotes by Jimmy Page

Image
From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
Jimmy Page
Image
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.
Jimmy Page
Image
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
Image
I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
Jimmy Page
Image
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
Image
So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.
Jimmy Page
Image
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
Image
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
Image
If you wanted to chart new territories and head off over the horizon, you had to make sure you weren't overly influenced by what others were doing ... so it didn't matter what other bands were doing ... we did what we were doing.
Jimmy Page
Image
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
Image
I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
Jimmy Page
Image
I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.
Jimmy Page
Image
The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.
Jimmy Page
Image
You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
Jimmy Page
Image
All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
Jimmy Page
Image
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 speciļ¬c moment is what drives it.
Jimmy Page
Image
You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.
Jimmy Page
Image
I had another idea of getting a traveling medicine wagon with a dropdown side and traveling around England. That might sound crazy to you, but over there it's so rural you can do it. Just drop down the side and play through big battery amps and mixers and it can all be as temporary or as permanent as I want it to be.
Jimmy Page
Image
I'm very fortunate because I love what I'm doing.
Jimmy Page
Image
I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.
Jimmy Page