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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”

Jimmy Page

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
I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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Care Criticism Myself People Thinking
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
Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can’t really compare it to how it is today.
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Compare Day Mouth Right Time Word Yourself
All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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Alone Home Isolation Myself Stay Time
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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Best Explode Expression Guitar Love Music Myself Tension Transformation World
There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
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Enjoyment Goodness Guitar Instrument Time
You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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Finding Genius Goodness Yourself
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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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
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
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
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 is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.
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Compare Drive Fire Guitar Myself Passion Player See Sensitive Thinking
I’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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Attraction Care Myself Precaution Unknown
You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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Artist Creation Environment Help Learning Yourself
I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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Competition Feeling Myself
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
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’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
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
You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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Happiness Yourself
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 like change and I like contrast.
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Change Myself Preference
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
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
I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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