Jimmy Page Quotes

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

There was an old acoustic in the house that my mother had given me for my fifth birthday. I took it off the wall and started jamming. I was seven years old at the time.

My favorite guitar now is my Martin HD-7 because it's got everything. It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing.

After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bottom acoustic steel string guitar. All I have to do is hit a couple of clean chords and the endorphins are right there. It's like the top of my head has come off and stardust and magic have fallen in.

I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.

I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.

I play the ukulele. Is that quirky?

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I've been a guitar junkie ever since.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

I started playing the guitar when I was 14. I'm not superstitious about guitars, but I do need strings to be old because that's part of my sound, and I don't like steel strings.

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on the wall in my front room. I loved the heaviness of it and the feel of the wood. I still do.

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.

When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved it. I started making up my own songs right away.

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.