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I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.

Jimmy Page

You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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Happiness 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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Capture Drive Intense Moments Mood Music Myself Specific Structure
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’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
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
I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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Far Journey Known Myself Play
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
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
I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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Guitar Need Oneself Straight
Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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Album Guitar Myself Play
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
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’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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Fortune Love Myself Work
I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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Deal Emotional Myself Technique
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
Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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Band Photograph Portrait Record 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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