Jimmy Page Quotes

I always say that to compose is to think. Playing is good, it's useful, but it's how your intellect puts the ideas together that will bring hands to write or to play. So, it's really a combination of many things; hearing sounds, hearing layers of counterpoints, of chords.

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

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

When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.

I really believe in melody.

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

The bass line is the anchor for me. I started with the bass, and either doubled that and then added the harmonies, or sometimes added my own harmonies that I've always wanted to sing on the song. And then it just went on from there - singing violin parts and trumpet parts and just trying to emulate the sounds of the instruments.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.

Composing music is hard work.

To me and my band, guitar riffs are what it's all about. We know that every time we jam on a great riff, we've got a fighting chance of writing a great song!

Cage always wanted to know what my structure was, if I had one. I often did have some sense of the time structure. Then he'd make a different one for the music.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

I think I have a sound or a certain feel in certain harmonies in the way I construct melodies.

Usually, when we write in The B-52s, it's quite a collaborative process. We really take hours - and sometimes days - jamming, and then we listen and listen to them and go, 'Oh, let's use this part, and then this part.' It's really like a collage.

I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra.

We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they're typically not.

Usually I write on guitar.

Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.

The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.

I love to work with producers who are very good with their chord progressions.