But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days. – Jimmy Page
I can’t think of a greater guitar icon than someone who has the musical intellect to change what was there before and take music in another direction. That’s a guitar hero for me. – Jimmy Page
You’ll find so many of the guitarists from the ’60s will all say Lonnie Donegan was the influence. – Jimmy Page
The instruments that bleed into each other are what creates the ambience. Once you start cleaning everything up, you lose it. You lose that sort of halo that bleeding creates. Then if you eliminate the halo, you have to go back and put in some artificial reverb, which is never as good. – Jimmy Page
The Stones are great and always have been. Jagger’s lyrics are just amazing. Right on the ball every time. – Jimmy Page
I’m not trying to be flippant here, but I just play the guitar, don’t I? That is my characteristic, and it’s my identity as you hear it. – Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin was an affair of the heart. Each of the members was important to the sum total of what we were. – Jimmy Page
The re-releases have more than doubled the amount of Led Zeppelin work out there. I wanted it done authoritatively, ’cause I was the one writing the stuff; I was the producer and mixer. I don’t think it’s any more weird than writing your autobiography. – Jimmy Page
Because Led Zeppelin weren’t having to worry about doing singles, each time we went in to record, it was a body of work for an album. So you could get the shift and the movement forwards as opposed to having to be rooted back to a single that might have been done a year ago. – Jimmy Page
I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened. – Jimmy Page
I don’t really want to go on about my personal beliefs or my involvement in magic. I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to. – Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin was a band that would change things around substantially each time it played… We were becoming tighter and tighter, to the point of telepathy. – Jimmy Page
With Led Zeppelin, it has always been that mystique of how the music is done – how it works, why it works. – Jimmy Page
My first guitar was like a campfire guitar. And it was left at a house that my family had moved into… and the guitar was at the house. It was all strung up. It’s normally something that would be beyond a bit of rubbish. – Jimmy Page
We were lucky in the days of Led Zeppelin. Each album was different. We didn’t have to continue a formula or produce a certain number of singles. Because, in those days, radio was still playing albums. That was really good. – Jimmy Page
Jack White is an extraordinary person because he’s like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead. – Jimmy Page
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. – Jimmy Page
I’ve never mastered the guitar. Either I was playing it, or it was playing me; it depends how you look at it. As a kid, the only things I had to do was go to school, do my homework, and play guitar. – Jimmy Page
If I’m going to put my image into something, I’ll put my image into something that I actually feel like I’d like to do. – Jimmy Page
That’s exactly why I came into music in the first place: to be inspired by what I hear to make it something else, to make it my own. That’s how culture, creativity, moves, isn’t it? – Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin isn’t done yet, quite clearly, because every year since 1968 there’s been new fans. – Jimmy Page
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
I play like I play. You hear it on ‘Celebration Day.’ It’s pretty good for a one-night shot. – Jimmy Page