Jimmy Page

“I seem to have tireless energy when I get involved in things, on an almost OCD basis, which is a good way to do things because if you're gonna do something, you'd better make sure you do it well.”

“If people want to find things, they find them themselves.”

“I don't think drums had ever sounded so big until Led Zeppelin's first album.”

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

“Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.”

“I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.”

“You shouldn't really have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound good. It should all be done with microphones and microphone placement.”

“I prefer to hear an artist's work and what they can do, so as far as I'm concerned, I'd get a lot more out of a collection of songs to be able to understand what the musician is doing.”

“Jack White is an extraordinary person because he's like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead.”

“My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.”

“The Yardbirds sort of disbanded, and I was disappointed because I thought what we were doing was really good. I thought we were really onto something. I thought I was really onto something with these ideas that I had.”

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

“I wasn't on 'You Really Got Me,' but I did play on the Kinks' records.”

“'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Led Zeppelin wasn't a corporate entity.”

“I don't really know anything about sales figures, to be honest with you.”

“You've got to capture as much of the room sound as possible. That's the very essence of it.”