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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.

Jimmy Page

Let’s just say I’m like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it’s time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing – one that couldn’t fly away.’
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Angel Break Fly Friendship Journey Myself Sad Search Storm
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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Art Dreams Guitar Important Myself Name Style Wealth
I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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Instrument Myself Play Slide
My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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Guitar Music Myself
Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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Consistent Music Myself
When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there’s a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
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Compare Musician Structure Togetherness Yourself
You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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Artist Creation Environment Help Learning Yourself
The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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Genius Lose Music Myself
I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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Guitar Need Oneself Straight
There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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Application Genius Music Standard Start Yourself
I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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Experience Musician Myself Reality Thinking Time Travel World
I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
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Country Development Drink Fear Fly Myself Scare Terrify
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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Army Build Composition Guitar Myself
There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
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Enjoyment Goodness Guitar Instrument Time
So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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Appearance Fortunate Music Myself Position
I don’t go walking into things blind.
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Blind Myself Walk

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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