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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.

Jimmy Page

I don’t care what critics and other people think.
JIMMY PAGE

Care Criticism Myself People Thinking
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
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 like change and I like contrast.
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Change Myself Preference
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
My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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Album Development Guitar Identity Myself Play Style
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
I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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Deal Emotional Myself Technique
Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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Heaven Hold Musician Myself Time
This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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Change Myself Personality
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
I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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Myself Regret
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
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
The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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Music Myself School See Teaching
I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.
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Copy Listening Myself Time

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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