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

Jimmy Page

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.
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Application Genius Music Standard Start Yourself
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’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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Fortune Love Myself Work
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
The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.
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Change Key Time
I will still carry on changing all the time.
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Carry Change Myself Time
I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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Best Exhaust Myself Pressure
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 only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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Acceptance Genius Myself
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 term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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Genius Lose Music Myself
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
I spend a lot of time near water.
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Myself Time Water
I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
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Country Development Drink Fear Fly Myself Scare Terrify
So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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Chance Inspirational Life People Yourself
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

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

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