Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or drums, which was what I was playing, at the time. But, I got so much from mariachi bands that were constantly playing in the neighborhood.
Jimmy PageI always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
Jimmy PageI really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
Jimmy PageI'm obsessed - not just interested, obsessed - with folk music, street music, the parallels between a country's street music and its so-called classical and intellectual music, the way certain scales have travelled right across the globe. All this ethnological and musical interaction fascinates me. Have you heard any trance music? That's the thing.
Jimmy Page