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The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

Jimmy Page

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 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
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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Culture Musician Myself Obvious Season Thinking
I guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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Heaven Level Myself Solo Tradition
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
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
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.
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Alone Fright People Security
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
Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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Domestic Myself
This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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Change Myself Personality
I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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Age Expectation Myself Time
I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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Day Oneself Situation
My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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Guitar Music Myself
There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
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Enjoyment Goodness Guitar Instrument Time
The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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Acceptance Genius Myself
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

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