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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.

Jimmy Page

I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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Competition Feeling Myself
I spend a lot of time near water.
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Myself Time Water
I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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Care Listening Music Myself
I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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Afraid Death Greatness Myself Mystery Race Time
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
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 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
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
I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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Embarrassment Myself People Play Show Simplicity
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
When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there’s a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
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Compare Musician Structure Togetherness Yourself
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
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
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
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

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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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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