Jimmy Page Quotes

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.

The fan support throughout the years, and the new generation, has made Zeppelin larger than life.

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.

Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.

I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.

I love listening to Led Zeppelin and classic rock albums from the Seventies. They're just so brilliant because they breathe.

Though rock is not the force that it once was in America, it still has a loyal fan base that always seems to continue regardless of what popular culture deems as the 'cool thing.'

I was interested in music since I was 14 years old. What really got me started was the first Led Zeppelin album... absolutely.

I'm too old for Led Zeppelin.

When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music.

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.

We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just expected that Bob Dylan was going to make a great record, and it was normal. It was like, 'Okay, here's another great record by Bob Dylan; here's another great record by Led Zeppelin.'

No, I don't think rock 'n' roll will ever fade.

I have lots of memories of Zeppelin. And I know the joy it gives fans when I tell them stories. I see their faces light up.

We're never gonna see bands like Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath again. It's over.

It means a lot to a lot of people, 'Smoke On The Water.'

I love everything by Led Zeppelin.

You can kiss my Kiss-loving ass because Kiss was never a critic's band. It was a people's band.

Led Zeppelin, they still rule the airwaves. I hear Zeppelin every day, and they've been around since '69. So the people who grew up with that still listen to that, and now their children listen to it.