Jimmy Page Quotes

The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.

I didn't really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn't want to be in the music without the lifestyle.

I don't think there is anyone I've ever met who has been more passionate about music than me, but rock 'n' roll has never been about just music. It is music, attitude, personality, persona, myth, legend.

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments.

Glam rock always has a story to tell and has that powerful voice with a little hint of libretto.

I never try to create a different personality or anything like that. I'm not like David Bowie or somebody like that, who changes personas each year.

Dad had a way of defining himself. He couldn't put his finger on whether it was rock 'n' roll or country.

There are a million misconceptions about me but the greatest is probably that people think I'm the king of disco. I love disco but it is only one part of me.

Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.

Every single day I'm alive or you're alive, we're choosing this life and this persona. We choose to be the stay-at-home mom who loves baking and Pilates. We choose to be a hipster who loves coffee shops and artisan goods. We choose to be a lawyer who runs marathons and only eats organic.

As everyone in the world can see, I am not a rocker.

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.

I don't really feel like a rock artist, but I guess in the small category of the world of music genres, that's where I fall in because I've got a guitar.

It just seemed like all the records I have made since Creedence Clearwater Revival have all been sort of pushed off center. I felt like I was dancing around the outskirts of what is my true center. With this album, I really wanted to stay on the mark, right in the middle, right where rock 'n' roll is. I wanted this one to be easier, a lot more fun than some of the past records have been.

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.

My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice.

It's the face the world sees, the one you can change as many times as you want

I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)