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Jimmy Page Quotes

British - Musician | January 9, 1944 -

The passing of John Bonham... Let's just put it... Before we say, 'the passing of John Bonham,' the introduction of John Bonham on the first album and 'Good Times Bad Times,' it changes drumming overnight.

Good Good Times Bad Say Bad Times

My guitar playing touches so many different areas of the form, but the important thing is what it represents across the form.

Guitar Important Playing Different

I always want to do my very best, and it's frustrating to have something hold me back.

Best Me Back Want Always Hold

But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.

Best Impossible Compromise Early Out

Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.

Today Time America You First Right

I would say New York, Chicago, Memphis, and Los Angeles were my favorites.

New York Los Angeles New Chicago Say

When I was still in the Yardbirds, our producer, Mickie Most, would always try to get us to record all these horrible songs. During one session, we recorded 'Ten Little Indians,' an extremely silly song that featured a truly awful brass arrangement.

Song Silly Try Always Producer Us

There's such a currency to Led Zeppelin, or the members of Led Zeppelin. If I put it to you this way, on the run-up to the O2 concert, the only music that we played was music of Led Zeppelin - the past catalog stuff; that's what we played on the way towards shaping up the set list for that. But we played really, really well.

Music Past You Way Up Concert

You want that - peers respecting what you're doing.

Doing You Want Peers Respecting

I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia. But it's not. It's airplanes, hotel rooms, limousines, and armed guards standing outside rooms. I don't get off on that part of it at all.

Love Hotel Down Outside Utopia Get

I can't think of a greater guitar icon than someone who has the musical intellect to change what was there before and take music in another direction. That's a guitar hero for me.

Change Music Hero Me Think Guitar

With Led Zeppelin, it has always been that mystique of how the music is done - how it works, why it works.

Music Done Why Always Been How

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