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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 bet you can’t play slide piano.
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Instrument Myself Play Slide
I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.
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Best Exhaust Myself Pressure
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’m attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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Attraction Care Myself Precaution Unknown
Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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Consistent Music Myself
A lot of people can’t be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn’t bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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Alone Fright People Security
All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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Alone Home Isolation Myself Stay Time
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
My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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Guitar Music Myself
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 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
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
Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
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Expensive Friendship Guitar Hard Instrument Myself Play Point Relative
You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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Music Myself Race Time
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 spend a lot of time near water.
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Myself Time Water

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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