I wasn't a very good draughtsman.
— Jimmy Page
I liked the Sex Pistols' music. I thought it was superb.
The whole thing about 'The Rover' is the whole swagger of it, the whole guitar attitude swagger. I'm afraid I've got to say it, but it's the sort of thing that is so apparent when you hear 'Rumble' by Link Wray - it's just total attitude, isn't it?
Spirit is a band I really love.
I'm not trying to be flippant here, but I just play the guitar, don't I? That is my characteristic, and it's my identity as you hear it.
'Communication Breakdown' - it was punchy and direct, with a real attitude that was different to other bands going around.
John Peel made his reputation with his radio show and his record label, Dandelion, by championing the underdog.
I consider descending chromatic lines and arpeggiated chords basic skills learned by any student of the guitar.
Led Zeppelin was a band that would change things around substantially each time it played... We were becoming tighter and tighter, to the point of telepathy.
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.
It's good to be in a position to know that I've inspired musicians, from what I've learned to lay down personally, and collectively with Led Zeppelin.
I play like I play. You hear it on 'Celebration Day.' It's pretty good for a one-night shot.
That's one of the problems with the Zeppelin stuff. It sounds ridiculous on MP3. You can't hear what's there properly.
How many guitars do I have? I don't know. I don't know! But I think the answer to it is, more than I can play at any one point in time. Even though I do have double necks, so I can try and play more than at one time!
I have one of those gravel-y voices with no range to it.
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.
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.
Zeppelin vinyl is quite revered in audiophile circles.
Here's where it goes with Led Zeppelin. It didn't matter what was going on around us, because the character of Led Zeppelin's music was so strong.
I was always good at hearing complete arrangements in my head.
I really love playing live - it's such a gas.
The thing about Led Zeppelin was that it was always four musicians at the top of their game, but they could play like a band.
There is no point in putting out 'The Complete BBC Sessions,' and someone's growling that you missed something.
I can understand why we got bad reviews. We went right over people's heads. One album would follow another and would have nothing to do with what we'd done before. People didn't know what was going on.
I do not recall ever seeing Spirit perform live.
I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.
I'm not a guitar hero.
Our intent with Led Zeppelin was not to get caught up in the singles' market, but to make albums where you could really flex your muscles - your musical intellect, if you like - and challenge yourself.
Because somebody plays guitar, why does it mean they need a singer? Because people already have this image of things? No, I'll put my music together, then think about whether I need to embellish it with a singer.
You'll find so many of the guitarists from the '60s will all say Lonnie Donegan was the influence.
I'm pretty loyal to my guitars, you know, but then they're pretty loyal to me, too.
If people want to find things, they find them themselves.
Led Zeppelin was an affair of the heart. Each of the members was important to the sum total of what we were.
The Stones are great and always have been. Jagger's lyrics are just amazing. Right on the ball every time.
Nobody could have predicted the effect of John Bonham's drum introduction on 'Good Times, Bad Times,' because no matter what he'd played in before, he'd never had the chance to flex his muscles and play like John Bonham.
Having the facility to have this multitrack at home, I could try experiments with sort of all of the instruments, giving them different treatments so they didn't actually sound, necessarily, like the instrument itself.
I was excited about opening for Vanilla Fudge because I was a big fan of theirs.
Every album that I've attempted, I suppose, has been different - it's bound to be.
With Led Zeppelin, it has always been that mystique of how the music is done - how it works, why it works.
Because we spent so much time in the States in the beginning, we weren't able to do so much in England. It was slower catching up. And we didn't have radio here like what was called underground radio over there. So we got these little slots on the BBC.
Certainly, as a guitarist, I was aware of descending chromatic lines and arpeggios long before 1968.
I am very good at remembering music and am absolutely certain that I never heard 'Taurus' until 2014.
I've never mastered the guitar. Either I was playing it, or it was playing me; it depends how you look at it. As a kid, the only things I had to do was go to school, do my homework, and play guitar.
If you listen to our work, from 'Led Zeppelin I' to 'Coda,' it's just a fantastic textbook.
In the 1960s and into the '70s, everyone in their own way was trying to open up the musical horizon. There shouldn't be a wall that you're going toward and bouncing off.
I've played guitar in so many different styles, and I want to revisit them all.
I can play in many sorts of categories because we've seen that with Led Zeppelin, all the acoustic stuff, and this, that and the other.
Time sometimes passes quite quickly.
I don't really want to go on about my personal beliefs or my involvement in magic. I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to.
Led Zeppelin wasn't a corporate entity.
