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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.

Jimmy Page

You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
JIMMY PAGE

Finding Genius Goodness Yourself
I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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Believe Development Different Guitar Identify Inheritance Instrument Music Myself
The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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Change Key Time
If you’re working at the factory and you’re cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You’ll just make yourself ill.
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Curse Day Factory Work Yourself
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
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
There’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.
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Affect Audience Live Music People Point Relate Yourself
The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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Genius Lose Music Myself
Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.
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Appearance Feeling Funny Guitar Myself Right See Time
Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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Myself Practice Time Wonderful
Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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Band Photograph Portrait Record Time
I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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Happiness Love Myself Play
I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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Format Lost Myself People Release Romance Thinking World
I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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Afraid Death Greatness Myself Mystery Race 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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Embarrassment Myself People Play Show Simplicity
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

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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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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