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Jimmy Page

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
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Africa Blue Culture Ideas Move Pieces Prime Time Yourself
Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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Best Explode Expression Guitar Love Music Myself Tension Transformation World
The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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Guitar Identify Player Thinking Yourself
Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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Album Guitar Myself Play
You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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Finding Genius Goodness Yourself
But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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Greatness Impossible Myself Promise
I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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Afraid Death Greatness Myself Mystery Race Time
There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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Care Listening Music Myself
Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
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Expensive Friendship Guitar Hard Instrument Myself Play Point Relative
I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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Finding Interest Myself People
When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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Guitarist Identity Myself Personality Reputation
I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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Far Journey Known Myself Play
I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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Myself Regret
I’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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