235 Quotes by Jimmy Page

I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.

I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.

When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.

I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.

But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he’d never heard my playing, and I’d defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.

My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.

I’m trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I’m off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I’ve got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I’m going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.

Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.

I bet you can’t play slide piano.