Jimmy Page Quotes

They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

Even though the popularity and the fanbase is much much greater, and more people have heard about me through things like the Grammys and the Ivors and touring and word of mouth, it doesn't reflect in the sales of the record and doesn't go into my pocket.

There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

I've never been on the cover of 'Tiger Beat' magazine, let's put it that way. But that's not why you go see Primus. You don't go see Primus to see what kind of new clothing I'm wearing or what my new hairdo is.

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.

I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.

America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.

I remember Robert Plant coming backstage after the first show saying, 'Hey, boys, I should be opening for you.' That felt pretty good.

We were a very popular live band in London, packing in 6,000 people a night, and the record companies that came after us wanted us to be the flavor of the month.

Led Zeppelin isn't done yet, quite clearly, because every year since 1968 there's been new fans.

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

Commercial success won't come to us from a change in the music. It will gradually be the result of a change in the appetite of the audience.

In rock music, you have a big success before you turn 30, then there is sort of a decay. Then there is the reunion, and everyone is waiting to hear what you were doing when you were 20, and nobody cares what you are doing at 50 or 60. But the more I continue, the more I produce, the more I play every year in bigger places.

Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it's good for rock if there's bigger bands.

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame decided to open up the voting beyond their inner circle, to the actual fans, that's when I think everything changed.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

In the years between 2000 and 2004, I always got the feeling that people were just starting to hear about me, and they were all late to the game. I'd be out playing shows for records that I recorded back in 1999 that were just coming out.