Jimmy Page

Django Reinhardt was fantastic. he must have been playing all the time to be that good.

Music has to be accessible.

If a guy’s got it, let him give it. I’m selling music, not prejudice.

My fans are the best in the world! They’ve grown up with me and stayed with me through this entire journey.

Jazz is an art that makes a person completely naked.

When you hear somebody with balls, that’s me.

Jazz music today is from the head and not the heart.

I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

I am only a mixture of countless influences and thanks to that I am able to find my own style of playing.

I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It’s not that I don’t want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music.

If a player is pushing their ability, a certain amount of failure is inevitable. Maybe even desirable.

Jazz singing is like pornography. You can’t say what it is, but you know it when you see it.

After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.