Jimmy Page Quotes

I'm never gonna be a Carlos Santana - an instrumentalist. I just like songs. It's three minutes of something that can be very powerful.

Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.

It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

I'd rather make music if I had the talent.

What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it.

I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are in my blood, so eventually I see myself doing something in that area, surely!

I'm very strong creatively, in my music.

There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about.

I think if I tried very hard, I could do a novel or a play, a poem. I could possibly paint a picture, but I know I can't write music. And still, it is the most accessible of all arts, as you know when you hear a tune.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

I want to be the most melodic artist. 'His music ability, the way he write, his creativity is undeniable.' I want people to say that about me.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

I'm just a human whose skill is making music.

I find that I like what I like. I like a strong melody, I like an inventive structure and I have to like the singer's voice or I have no interest in it.