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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.

Jimmy Page

I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
JIMMY PAGE

Fortune Love Myself Work
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
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
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
Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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Album Guitar Myself Play
I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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Competition Feeling Myself
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 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 don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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Age Myself Reach Serious Thinking
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
So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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Appearance Fortunate Music Myself Position
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’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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Age Expectation Myself Time
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
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
The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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Decoration Greatness Help Myself Need Satisfaction

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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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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