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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.

Jimmy Page

I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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Format Lost Myself People Release Romance Thinking World
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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Copy Listening Myself Time
I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
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Country Development Drink Fear Fly Myself Scare Terrify
I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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Education Goodness Guitar Myself Teaching
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
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
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’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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Best Exhaust Myself Pressure
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
The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
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Appeal Guitar Important Myself
I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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Competition Feeling Myself
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
I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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Deal Emotional Myself Technique
I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever done.
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Myself Regret
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
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 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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