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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

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.
JIMMY PAGE

Curse Day Factory Work Yourself
I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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Age Expectation Myself Time
I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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Better Communication Guitar Instrument Myself
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
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
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.
JIMMY PAGE

Africa Blue Culture Ideas Move Pieces Prime Time Yourself
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
A lot of people can’t be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn’t bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
JIMMY PAGE

Alone Fright People Security
I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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Attraction Care Myself Precaution Unknown
I know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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Music Myself Pattern See Slow Thinking
Let’s just say I’m like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it’s time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing – one that couldn’t fly away.’
JIMMY PAGE

Angel Break Fly Friendship Journey Myself Sad Search Storm
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

Embarrassment Myself People Play Show Simplicity
You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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Artist Creation Environment Help Learning Yourself
I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
JIMMY PAGE

Myself Regret
I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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Believe Myself Work
I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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Best Exhaust Myself Pressure

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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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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