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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.

Jimmy Page

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
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
This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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Change Myself Personality
The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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Decoration Greatness Help Myself Need Satisfaction
I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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Deal Emotional Myself Technique
I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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Angel Break Myself Wings
I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.
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Devil Friendship Intrigue Live Myself Worship
Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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Myself Practice Time Wonderful
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
I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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Better Communication Guitar Instrument Myself
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 believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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Believe Development Different Guitar Identify Inheritance Instrument Music Myself
The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
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Change Different Element Oneself Reason Togetherness
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 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
The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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Acceptance Genius Myself

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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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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