Jimmy Page Quotes

I finally realized that not only was I passionate about music, but I had a unique way of thinking of music.

I kind of always thought that I had a good ear for melodies. I think in terms of melody. I can just be walking and I'll hear a melody.

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

As a kid, I could just pick up melody and harmony instinctively, and that's why I can play lots of instruments.

I was born understanding the language of music.

Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times.

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.

Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

My head works in music, so there's always music there.

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.

Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

I usually think in terms of music.

When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.