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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

The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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Music Myself School See Teaching
I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be.
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Guitar Myself Play Vehicle
The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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Genius Lose Music Myself
I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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Attraction Care Myself Precaution Unknown
The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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Decoration Greatness Help Myself Need Satisfaction
I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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Best Exhaust Myself Pressure
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 don’t go walking into things blind.
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Blind Myself Walk
Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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Death Doubt Drum Greatness Himself Live Moments
Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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Album Guitar Myself Play
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
There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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Art Dreams Guitar Important Myself Name Style Wealth
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
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 can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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Better Communication Guitar Instrument Myself
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

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.

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