Jimmy Page Quotes

From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.

You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.

Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.

My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically.

It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.

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.

They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true.

But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.

The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.

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.

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

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

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

I have one custom guitar which I play almost exclusively. I have others - sometimes you want a little texture, kind of a different sound or something.

I do a very poor man's pedal steel on the Stratocaster.

My first real real guitar I had was a Charvel, model 1 and that was when I was 15, I think, I got that.

I play the guitar.

Basically, I try to treat the electric guitar like an acoustic guitar. What you have to do is attack the instrument and know that your feelings aren't controlled by the controls of your guitar.

The Fender Precision is my instrument, my beloved Precisions.

I got this cheap guitar, and then I fell in love with it and basically put down the keyboard.