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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

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
I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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Best Exhaust Myself Pressure
I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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Deal Emotional Myself Technique
You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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Happiness Yourself
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
The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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Genius Lose Music Myself
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 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 like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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Day Oneself Situation
I don’t go walking into things blind.
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Blind Myself Walk
I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.
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Devil Friendship Intrigue Live Myself Worship
The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
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Change Different Element Oneself Reason Togetherness
I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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Believe Myself Work
This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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Change Myself Personality
Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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Album Guitar Myself Play
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’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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Myself Regret
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
I spend a lot of time near water.
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Myself Time Water
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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Capture Drive Intense Moments Mood Music Myself Specific Structure
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
I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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Competition Feeling Myself
So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
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Chance Inspirational Life People Yourself
Live Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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Myself Practice Time Wonderful
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
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 bet you can’t play slide piano.
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Instrument Myself Play Slide

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