Jimmy Page Quotes

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. So the words have to have meaning.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

Generally, I think of myself as a guitar player, but when I do find the right song to sing lead on, I try to do my best.

I feel like I'm playing the washboard more than the guitar.

Something people might not know about me is, I like playing the guitar.

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.

Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person.

I play the ukulele. Is that quirky?

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.

I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set me apart from other kinds of artists. I feel that musicians do it their own way, write their own songs and put on a great live shows.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

I've always loved the guitar. You see Jimi Hendrix playing the guitar with his teeth, and OK, you know you're never going to be able to do that, but I always wanted to play an instrument of some sort.

I play the guitar a little bit.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.