Jimmy Page Quotes

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

I love doing concert music.

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.

It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like we are.

A song isn't finished until it's played live, and then it moves on.

Someone like my father will improvise as much as 90% of the music in concert, but with me it's maybe 10 to 20%. It's sort of the test of how great someone is, the more they can improvise correctly and still be true to the raga they're playing, and still keep it new and fresh the whole time.

There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

I just want to play music with a band, live.

Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn't in that medium.

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

I've been performing since I was in high school, so I've seen people react to my music and my playing. I'm always appreciative when people like the music, but I'm not shocked.

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.