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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.

Jimmy Page

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
My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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Album Development Guitar Identity Myself Play Style
From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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Amazing Classic Experiment Guitar Instrument Myself Sound Thinking
The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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Acceptance Genius Myself
When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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Guitarist Identity Myself Personality Reputation
I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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Experience Musician Myself Reality Thinking Time Travel World
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
All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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Alone Home Isolation Myself Stay Time
I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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Deal Emotion Expectation Further Important Myself Side
I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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Competition Feeling 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
There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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Call Friendship Myself People Precious Reality
I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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Finding Interest Myself People
Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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Change Degree Experience Fans Life Music Musician
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 don’t care what critics and other people think.
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Care Criticism Myself People Thinking

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