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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.

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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
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
I’m over 30 now, but I didn’t expect to be here.
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Age Expectation Myself Time
I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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Deal Emotion Expectation Further Important Myself Side
There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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Culture Musician Myself Obvious Season Thinking
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 don’t go walking into things blind.
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Blind Myself Walk
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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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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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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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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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
Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.
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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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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 only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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Acceptance Genius Myself
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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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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Carry Change Myself Time
I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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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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
There’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.
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I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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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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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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