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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.

Jimmy Page

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’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
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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Guitar Identify Player Thinking Yourself
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
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
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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Capture Drive Intense Moments Mood Music Myself Specific Structure
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
There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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Business Goodness Musician World
I like change and I like contrast.
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Change Myself Preference
I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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Experience Musician Myself Reality Thinking Time Travel World
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
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
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
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
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
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

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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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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