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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.

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.
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Curse Day Factory Work Yourself
I really wasn’t needed. Just straightening up riffs, that’s all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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Guitar Need Oneself Straight
But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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Greatness Impossible Myself Promise
There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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Business Goodness Musician World
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
Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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Band Photograph Portrait Record Time
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.’
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Angel Break Fly Friendship Journey Myself Sad Search Storm
This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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Change Myself Personality
If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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Creativity Man Mess School Teacher Wrong Yourself
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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Army Build Composition Guitar Myself
I will still carry on changing all the time.
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Carry Change Myself 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
Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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Best Explode Expression Guitar Love Music Myself Tension Transformation World
The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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Guitar Identify Player Thinking Yourself
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
Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
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Heaven Hold Musician Myself Time

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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