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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.

Jimmy Page

I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
JIMMY PAGE

Age Myself Reach Serious Thinking
You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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Music Myself Race Time
Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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Album Guitar Myself Play
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
If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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Creativity Man Mess School Teacher Wrong Yourself
I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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Interest Myself World
I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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Age Expectation Myself Time
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
I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.
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Believe Character Different Guitar Myself Person Strong
I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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Day Oneself Situation
I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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Education Goodness Guitar Myself Teaching
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.
JIMMY PAGE

Curse Day Factory Work Yourself
I know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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Music Myself Pattern See Slow Thinking
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.
JIMMY PAGE

Enjoyment Goodness Guitar Instrument Time
Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
JIMMY PAGE

Himself Myself Opinion Woman Wrong
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.
JIMMY PAGE

Application Genius Music Standard Start Yourself

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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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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