Jimmy Page Quotes

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

You don't have to be doing vocal acrobatics or singing all over the scale to have soul.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

I don't have favourites, I think, when you play, you have to be like a prostitute, you have to love the piece you are playing. Even if you don't like it, you have to play it as if you would like it. Then you are a good interpreter.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

I play guitar, and it's not a prop.

I love the notion of a dude sitting there with an untuned guitar tapping his foot and just singing his passion out; that's what got me into music in the first place.

That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.

I find it hard to not like music if it has passion behind it and good integrity. Only if it's made for the wrong reasons and shows a lack of respect for its audience will I find something to dislike.

When a guitarist can evoke a certain mood through his playing, that's what's most important to me.

We make music that we believe in. That's all it is.

I knew I loved music, and I knew that I could feel music. So, I knew I had rhythm.

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

I have always made music with passion, love and honesty.

Every song is true and has its unique story behind it.

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar

I always had wished somebody else would sing my songs, but there wasn't anybody who knew them, so I sang them myself and eventually became a better singer and guitar player.

The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.