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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.

Jimmy Page

There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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Different Genre Move Music Myself Necessary Reach
From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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Amazing Classic Experiment Guitar Instrument Myself Sound Thinking
You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a speciﬁc moment is what drives it.
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Capture Drive Intense Moments Mood Music Myself Specific Structure
If you’re working at the factory and you’re cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You’ll just make yourself ill.
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Curse Day Factory Work Yourself
The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
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Appeal Guitar Important Myself
I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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Classic Composition Future Music Myself Optimistic Rock
Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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Death Doubt Drum Greatness Himself Live Moments
I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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Deal Emotion Expectation Further Important Myself Side
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’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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Angel Break Myself Wings
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 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.
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Album Feeling Myself Structure
Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can’t really compare it to how it is today.
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Compare Day Mouth Right Time Word Yourself
There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.
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Compare Drive Fire Guitar Myself Passion Player See Sensitive Thinking
A lot of people can’t be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn’t bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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Alone Fright People Security
I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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Embarrassment Myself People Play Show Simplicity

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