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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

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.
JIMMY PAGE

Copy Listening Myself Time
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.
JIMMY PAGE

Capture Drive Intense Moments Mood Music Myself Specific Structure
So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
JIMMY PAGE

Chance Inspirational Life People Yourself
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.
JIMMY PAGE

Guitarist Identity Myself Personality Reputation
I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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Myself Regret
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
The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
JIMMY PAGE

Music Myself School See Teaching
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
Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
JIMMY PAGE

Change Degree Experience Fans Life Music Musician
There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
JIMMY PAGE

Business Goodness Musician World
I’m still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It’s not very easy to find them these days.
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Angel Break Day Finding Myself Search
I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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Education Goodness Guitar Myself Teaching
I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
JIMMY PAGE

Believe Myself Work
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
Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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Band Photograph Portrait Record Time
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.
JIMMY PAGE

Application Genius Music Standard Start Yourself

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