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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.

Jimmy Page

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 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
I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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Best Exhaust Myself Pressure
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
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
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 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
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
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
So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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Chance Inspirational Life People Yourself
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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Guitar Myself Pick Play Technique Technology
There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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Call Friendship Myself People Precious Reality
I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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Care Criticism Myself People Thinking
I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be.
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Guitar Myself Play Vehicle
I guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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Heaven Level Myself Solo Tradition
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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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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