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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.

Jimmy Page

I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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Age Myself Reach Serious Thinking
Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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Face Genuine Happiness Myself People
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
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
I will still carry on changing all the time.
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Carry Change Myself Time
Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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Consistent Music Myself
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
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
I bet you can’t play slide piano.
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Instrument Myself Play Slide
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
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
There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.
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Compare Drive Fire Guitar Myself Passion Player See Sensitive Thinking
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
I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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Believe Myself Work
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
I spend a lot of time near water.
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Myself Time Water

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