Jimmy Page Quotes

First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.

I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.

There's so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was 'Help!' by the Beatles and from there I just loved rock music.

I used to listen to the Beatles and Stones, whereas Angus was more into the heavier stuff - Cream, Hendrix - with the lead guitar.

I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles constantly were big influences on my life.

I grew up on oldies like the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and The Who.

I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.

The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry. It is like magic.

I hope fans will go back and listen to the Beatles and the Beach Boys or Led Zeppelin, or put on 'Tommy' and let them experience like I did that moment when 'Pinball Wizard' comes on.

The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.

I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them.

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

Some of the best rock riffs ever written were by Jimmy Page, and I can't really name the songs, but some of the stuff he did on his first and second records is beyond brilliant.

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.

When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.

I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

C'mon, I mean who didn't listen to 'The Who' in the 60s?

I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones.

L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.

Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.