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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

Jimmy Page

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
Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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Change Degree Experience Fans Life Music Musician
I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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Album Feeling Myself Structure
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
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
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
I don’t go walking into things blind.
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Blind Myself Walk
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
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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Culture Musician Myself Obvious Season Thinking
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
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
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
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
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 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
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

I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

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