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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.

Jimmy Page

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
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 love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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Happiness Love Myself Play
You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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Happiness Yourself
The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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Genius Lose Music Myself
Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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Album Guitar Myself Play
I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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Album Feeling Myself Structure
I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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Age Expectation Myself Time
I will still carry on changing all the time.
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Carry Change Myself Time
I’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
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Guitar Myself Pick Play Technique Technology
But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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Greatness Impossible Myself Promise
The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
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Africa Blue Culture Ideas Move Pieces Prime Time Yourself
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
The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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Guitar Identify Player Thinking Yourself
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
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

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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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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